PITTSBURGH — Andy Warhol captured Andrew Rossi's imagination from the time he was a kid checking out the Pittsburgh native's artwork at New York City galleries and watching his many television appearances.
"His whole world seemed fun and punk but in an '80s glamour kind of way," Rossi told the Post-Gazette. "As someone figuring out their sexuality like me as a bisexual man, the courage he had to be queer and have a sort of empire at The Factory felt very exciting, and I wanted to know more."
Warhol died in 1987, but Rossi's thirst to learn more about him was fulfilled in 1989 with the release of "The Andy Warhol Diaires," a memoir Warhol dictated over the course of 11 years to his close friend, Pat Hackett. While Warhol spent most of his life guarding his true thoughts and feelings, the book was a relatively unfiltered account of his inner monologue from 1976 through the days leading up to his death.
