Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn - A Walk On The Wild Side With Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous Superstar

A young, aspiring writer desperate for a break…and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime.

By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born Jeff Copeland, who moved to Hollywood with dreams of ‘making it’ as a television writer, changed the course of BOTH of their lives forever.

Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a story of how an unlikely friendship with a young gay writer and an, ahem, mature trans actress and performer created the bestselling autobiography of 1991, A Low Life in High Heels. This book about writing a book is a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to the glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world of a Warhol Superstar. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly the second chance at fame she craved.

In turns hilarious and heartwarming, Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn is a portrait of the real Holly who loved deeply, laughed loudly, and left mayhem in her wake. Foreword by queer icon and author, Simon Doonan.

About the author

Jeff Copeland is a television writer and producer. They co-authored The Holly Woodlawn Story: A Low Life in High Heals in 1991.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Copeland
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2025
• EAN: 9781627311595
• ISBN: 978-1-62731-159-5
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography: arts & entertainment, Gay & Lesbian studies, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Biography: arts and entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gender studies: transgender & intersex