Full of wonderful stories, startlingly intimate and altogether fascinating, this is the most entertaining account of Truman Capote's life yet, as only the incomparable George Plimpton could have done it.
y the time In Cold Blood was published in 1965, the issues of class and race raised by Dreiser and Wright were joined by a concern for the psychological aspects of the criminal and the use of the insanity defense in court.
Katherine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, John Huston, and many other familiars of the writer follow his life and career, from his Southern childhood to his precipitate decline
He was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career he was the point where the glamorous worlds of the arts, society, and politics all met--a...
"The thing I like to do most in the world is talk," Capote once said, & talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book.
Pugh explores Capote through a cinematic lens, skillfully weaving the most relevant elements of Capote's biography with insightful critical analysis of the films, screenplays, and adaptations of his works that composed his fraught ...
The Public Broadcasting Service and Thirteen/WNET New York provide a biographical sketch of American writer Truman Capote (1924-1984) as a supplement to the documentary series "American Masters." Capote wrote novels,...
In Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinematic lens, weaving elements of Capote’s biography—including his flamboyant public persona and his friendships and feuds ...