Andy Warhol's Ancestry: Facts, Myths, and Mysteries

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2019-01-07

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Andy Warhol is the most famous American of Carpatho-Rusyn descent, but questions about his ethnicity persist. This study explores the Warhola-Zavacky family’s ethnic background and traces Warhol’s ancestry based on archival evidence, uncovering new, unanticipated information.