Pat Hackett

Pat Hackett is an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. Hackett was a close friend and collaborator of pop artist Andy Warhol. They co-authored the books POPism: The Warhol Sixties and Andy Warhol's Party Book (1988). She also edited The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989). Hackett was an editor for Interview magazine and she co-wrote the screenplay for the film Bad (1977).

Career

Hackett received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Barnard College in Manhattan.

Hackett became close friends with Warhol's longtime partner Jed Johnson during her time at The Factory. By the spring of 1969, Hackett's finances were running low so she intended to quit volunteering at The Factory to find a part-time job, but Johnson notified Warhol and helped get her on the payroll which allowed her to continue working with Warhol. At first, he would do this when he came into work every day, and later over the phone. This eventually grew into The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989), which spanned from 1976 to 1987.

In 1973, Hackett assisted director Paul Morrissey with the scripts for Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) and Blood for Dracula (1974), but she was not credited. This was the first Warhol film to use a script. After Warhol died in 1987, Hackett co-authored Andy Warhol's Party Book. In 1989, The Andy Warhol Diaries was published, a transcribed, edited, and condensed version of a diary dictated by Warhol to Hackett in daily phone conversations. In 2022, she appeared in the Netflix docuseries The Andy Warhol Diaries.