Books by Cynthia Carr
“This is a compassionate portrait of Candy Darling, who lived a pretty tough life. She was born James Lawrence Slattery, but from the beginning it was very apparent that she wanted to become a woman, a very glamorous woman. So she left Queens and wound up in this group of people that flocked around Andy Warhol. Andy ended up using her in his films, and she became a movie star of sorts, although not the kind of movie star she really wanted to be. The hard part is that nobody really took care of her, including Warhol. She was often homeless.” Read more...
The Best Biographies: The 2025 NBCC Shortlist
Mary Ann Gwinn, Journalist
Interviews where books by Cynthia Carr were recommended
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
by Jane Kamensky -
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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
by Cynthia Carr -
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Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
by Jean Strouse -
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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
by Tiya Miles -
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
by Amy Reading
The Best Biographies: The 2025 NBCC Shortlist, recommended by Mary Ann Gwinn
The Best Biographies: The 2025 NBCC Shortlist, recommended by Mary Ann Gwinn
We always look forward to the shortlists for the National Book Critics Awards, on the basis that literary critics are probably the best read people out there. Here, we asked the garlanded critic Mary Ann Gwinn to talk us through the five biographies highlighted in 2025.