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Published in: September-October 2024 issue.

Candy Darling

CANDY DARLING
Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
by Cynthia Carr
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
364 pages, $30.


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            Cynthia Carr’s new, rigorously researched biography Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar traces the short, difficult, and remarkable life of Candy Darling from her early school years through her painful death from leukemia and lymphoma in 1974 at age 29. Delving into Candy’s and others’ extensive archives, Carr gives us Candy in all her tortured, driven, somewhat delusional, supremely fabulous life.

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Hank Trout, a frequent contributor to these pages, is the former editor of A&U: America’s AIDS Magazine.

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