Did You Know He Was A Famous Baby?
Renowned photographer Diane Arbus took a photograph of Anderson sleeping when he was a baby which appeared in Harper’s Bazaar magazine in 1968. She had to convince the Vanderbilt’s to allow the photo to be published, and she succeeded. It is one of Arbus’s most famous photographs and is entitled “A Very Young Baby.”
A Very Young Baby
He Thought People Turned Into Statues
Anderson wrote in his autobiography entitled, “Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival,” that when he was a child he thought when people died they became statues! This is because as a young boy his mother showed him the statue of his great-great-great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt at Grand Central Station. Thus, for several years after, he believed that when one’s older relatives died, they turned into statues. Good thing that is not true!
Cornelius Vanderbilt Statue
