Alexandra Auder is a writer and actress.
Born in the Chelsea Hotel to mother Viva, a Warhol superstar, and father Michel Auder, filmmaker, Alex came of age in NYC’s downtown art scene. She wrote the critically acclaimed memoir, Don’t Call Me Home, and has been a featured character in HBO’s High Maintenance and has acted in the films of Wim Wenders and Jodie Foster, among others.
Alexandra resides in Philadelphia with her two children and husband, filmmaker Nick Nehez, with whom she co-produces and collaborates.
A moving and wickedly funny memoir about one woman’s life as the daughter of a Warhol superstar and the intimate bonds of mother-daughter relationships.
PRAISE
“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordinary childhood as she travels the world with her mother Viva. Wit and wisdom wrapped and bound with love.” –Debbie Harry
“I truly think this book is hearty and breathtaking. Life is a pure risk in this telling of growing up in an avant garde family. I’ve told everyone I know about this book while I’ve been reading it because the rest of the time I’ve just been reading it. Alex Auder is the most natural organic page turner of a writer – because her visual memory feels flawless and as a kid she was already every where and the life seemed impossible and the opportunities for experience endless and psychedelic and yet she was completely awake in it and grows up not sad. Kind of thrilled it seems and that’s the hearty and breathtaking part.”––Eileen Myles, poet and author of Chelsea Girls
“Alexandra Auder’s Don’t Call Me Home is thrumming with life, in all its absurdity, vividness, and gunk. I literally laughed and cried, and cheered hard throughout for our intrepid narrator, who has gifted us an incomparable tale – one notable for its singular portrait of a place, sensibility, and time, and for its unruly contributions to the timeless problem of how we become ourselves, survive, and thrive.” –Maggie Nelson author of The Argonauts and On Freedom
“In Don’t Call Me Home, Auder renders her unique mother-daughter relationship with feeling, clarity, humor, and honesty. Through her adventures in the city and her unusual family, Auder also gives us a fascinating and vivid cultural history of New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Don’t Call Me Home is lively, wise, moving, and wonderful reading” —Lynne Tillman, author of Men and Apparitions and Mothercare