In response to a request for 'biographical information' by
Harper's Magazine's managing editor
Russell Lynes, 21-year-old
Andy Warhol wrote the following self-deprecating note. It was 1949, Warhol had recently moved to New York following his graduation at
Carnegie Tech, and he was already starting to impress as a commercial artist having just illustrated
Vega, a short story by
John Cheever which was to be featured in Harper's itself.
Little did he or Lynes know, but his life story would soon fill many a book.
Transcript follows.
Transcript
Hello mr lynes
thank you very much
biographical information
my life couldn't fill a penny postcard
i was born in pittsburgh in 1928 (like everyone else - in a steel mill)
i graduated from Carnegie Tech
now i'm in NY city moving from one roach infested apartment to another.
andy warhol
