Truman Capote

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Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons , 30 September 1924 - August 25, 1984) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter , playwrights, and actors. Many of Capote's short stories, novels, plays and nonfictions are recognized as classical literature, including the novel Tiffany's (1958) and the true criminal novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled "nonfiction novels". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories, and dramas.

Capote rises above a troubled childhood due to a divorce, long absence from his mother, and some migration. He had found his call as a writer by the age of eight, and for the rest of his childhood he honed his writing skills. Capote began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of one story, "Miriam" (1945), attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf, and resulted in a contract to write a novel (1948). Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood , a journalistic work about killing a family of Kansas farmers in their home. Capote spent four years writing a book aided by his fellow Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).

A milestone in popular culture, In Cold Blood is the culmination of Capote's literary career. In the 1970s, he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows.

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Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Capote is 17-year-old son Lillie Mae Faulk and salesman Archulus Persons. His parents divorced when he was four years old, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the next four to five years, he was raised by his mother's family. She forms a fast bond with her mother's distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk, whom Truman calls "Sook". "Her face is incredible - unlike Lincoln, rough as it is, and colored by sun and wind", is how Capote describes Sook in "A Christmas Memory" (1956). At Monroeville, he is a neighbor and co-author of Harper Lee, who is rumored to have based his character Dill on Capote.

As a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before entering the first year of his school. Capote is often seen at the age of five carrying a dictionary and a notepad, and began writing fiction at the age of 11. He was given the nickname "Bulldog" around this age.

On Saturday, he traveled from Monroeville to the nearby city of Mobile on the Gulf Coast, and at one point sent a short story, "Old Lady Busybody", to a children's writing contest sponsored by Mobile Press List . Capote received recognition for his original work from The Scholastic Art & amp; Award Writing in 1936.

In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her second husband, Joseph Capote, a Canaria-born textile dealer from La Palma, who adopted him as his stepson and named him Truman GarcÃÆ'a Capote. However, Joseph was convicted of embezzlement and soon after, when his income fell, the family was forced to leave Park Avenue.

In his early days, Capote recounted, "I started writing very seriously when I was about eleven.I say seriously in the sense that like other kids go home and practice a violin or piano or whatever, I often come home from school every day, and I will write about three hours I'm obsessed by it. "In 1935, he studied at Trinity School in New York City. He then attended St. Military Academy. Joseph. In 1939, the Capote family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and Truman attended Greenwich High School, where he wrote for school literary journals, The Green Witch, and the school newspaper. When they returned to New York City in 1942, he attended the Franklin School, the Upper West Side private school now known as the Dwight School, and graduated in 1943. That was the end of his formal education.

While still attending Franklin in 1943, Capote began working as a copyboy in the art department at The New Yorker, a job he had held for two years before being fired for angry poet Robert Frost. Years later, he contemplated, "It's not a very big job, because everything involved is sorting out cartoons and newspaper clippings, but I'm lucky to have it, especially since I'm determined never to set foot in the classroom. the only one is or not a writer, and no combination of professors can affect the outcome.I still think I'm right, at least in my own case. "He left his job to live with his relatives in Alabama and began writing his first novel Summer Crossing .

Friendship with Harper Lee

Capote based on Idabel's character at Other Voices, Other Rooms in neighboring Monroeville and his best friend, Harper Lee. Capote once admitted this: "Mr. and Mrs. Lee, mother and father of Harper Lee, live very closely He is my best friend Have you ever read his book, To Kill a Mockingbird I am a character in a book that happened in the same small town in Alabama where we lived, his father is a lawyer, and he and I often go to court all the time as children We go to court instead of going to the movies. After the Pulitzer Prize was given to Lee in 1961 and Capote was published in Cold Blood in 1966, the authors became increasingly distant from each other.

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Writing career

Short story story

Capote began writing short stories from around the age of 8. In 2013, 14 unpublished stories were written when Capote was a teenager found at the New York Public Library Archives by Swiss publisher Peter Haag. It was published by Random House in 2015 with the title The Early Stories of Truman Capote .

Between 1943 and 1946, Capote wrote a short fictional stream, including "Miriam", "My Trash Sides", and "Close the End Door" (where he won the O. Henry Award in 1948, at the age of 24). His stories are published in both popular literary quarters and popular magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly Harper's Bazaar Harper's Magazine Mademoiselle , The New Yorker , Prairie Schooner and Story . In June 1945, "Miriam" was published by Mademoiselle and later won the Best First-Published Story prize in 1946. In the spring of 1946 Capote was accepted at Yaddo, the artist and writer's colony at Saratoga Springs, New York. (He then supports Patricia Highsmith as a Yaddo candidate, and he writes Stranger on the Railway when he is there.)

During the interview for The Paris Review in 1957, Capote said this about his short story technique:

Since each story presents its own technical problem, of course one can not generalize them by two-two-fours. Finding the right shape for your story is just to be aware of how natural is in telling a story. The test of whether a writer has predicted the natural form of his story is this: after reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and it seems you are absolute and final? As orange is final. Like oranges is something that nature has done right.

Random House, its novel publisher Other Voices, Other Rooms (see below), moved to capitalize on the success of this novel with the publication of A Tree of Night and Other Stories in 1949. In addition "Miriam", this collection also includes "Shut a Final Door", first published in The Atlantic Monthly (August 1947).

After A Tree of Night , Capote published his travel writing collection, Local Color (1950), which included nine essays published in magazines between 1946 and 1950.

"A Christmas Memory", a major autobiographical tale that took place in the 1930s, was published in Mademoiselle magazine in 1956. It was published as a self-edited hard cover edition in 1966 and has since been published in many editions and anthologies.

Initial novel published posthumously

Sometime in the 1940s, Capote wrote a set of novels in New York City about the summer romance of a socialite and a parking attendant. Capote later claimed to have destroyed the manuscript of this novel; but twenty years after his death, in 2004, it was revealed that the manuscript had been taken out of garbage in 1950 by a nanny in an apartment previously occupied by Capote. The novel was published in 2006 by Random House under the title Summer Crossing .

The movie rights for Summer Crossing were purchased by actress Scarlett Johansson and the cinematic version is in the works. Veteran writers Tristine Skyler and T. Rafael Cimino have registered to create scenarios. The film will mark the directorial debut of Johansson.

First novel, Other Votes, Other Rooms

The critical success of one of his short stories, "Miriam" (1945), attracted the attention of publisher Bennett Cerf, resulting in a contract with Random House to write a novel. With a $ 1,500 advance, Capote returns to Monroeville and starts Other Voice, Another Room , continues to work on manuscripts in New Orleans, Saratoga Springs, New York and North Carolina, finally completing it in Nantucket, Massachusetts. It was published in 1948. Capote describes this symbolic story as "a poetic explosion in a deeply suppressed emotion". This novel is a refraction of Capote's semi-autobiographical childhood in Alabama. A few decades later, writing on The Dogs Bark (1973), he commented:

Other Votes, Other Rooms is an attempt to drive out demons, unconsciousness, all intuitive efforts, because I am unconscious, except for some incidents and descriptions, about its existence at a serious autobiographical level. Rereading now, I find self-deception unforgivable.

The story focuses on 13-year-old Joel Knox after losing his mother. Joel was sent from New Orleans to live with his father, who abandoned him at the time of his birth. Arriving at Skully's Landing, a large rotted mansion in rural Alabama, Joel meets his sullen stepmother, Amy, a transvestite Randolph, and challenging Idabel, a girl who becomes her friend. He also saw a spectacular "strange woman" with "curly fat dribbles" watching him from the top window. Despite Joel's questions, his father's whereabouts remain a mystery. When finally allowed to see his father, Joel is stunned to find him paralyzed, having fallen down the stairs after being accidentally shot by Randolph. Joel escaped with Idabel but caught pneumonia and eventually returned to Landing, where he was treated again by Randolph. The implication in the last paragraph is that the "weird lady" who calls from the window is Randolph in his old Mardi Gras costume. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988) illustrates the conclusion:

Finally, when he goes to join the strange woman in the window, Joel accepts his destiny, which is to be homosexual, to always hear another voice and stay in another room. But acceptance is not a surrender; it is liberation. "I am me", he yelled. "I'm Joel, we're the same people." So, in a sense, Truman rejoiced when he reconciled with his own identity.

Photos Harold Halma

Other Voices, Other Rooms made a list of New York Times bestsellers and stayed there for nine weeks, selling over 26,000 copies. The promotion and controversy surrounding this novel catapulted Capote to fame. A photograph of Harold Halma 1947 that was used to promote the book showed Capote lying with a sharp eye on the camera. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988), writes, "Famous photographs: Harold Halma's picture on dustjacket Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) is caused as many comments and controversy as prose in. Truman claims that the camera has caught him off guard, but in fact he has volunteered and is responsible for images and publicity. "Much of the initial attention to Capote is centered on a different interpretation of this photo, which is seen as a suggestive pose by some person. According to Clarke, the photo creates "uproar" and gives Capote "not only the literature, but also the public personality that she always wants." The photo makes a big impression on 20-year-old Andy Warhol, who often talks about drawing and writing fan letters to Capote. When Warhol moved to New York in 1949, he made many attempts to meet Capote, and Warhol's interest with his writer led to New York's first show by Warhol, Fifteen Drawings Based on Truman Capote Writings at the Gallery Hugo (June 16 - July 3, 1952).

When the picture was reprinted along with reviews in magazines and newspapers, some readers were amused, but others were angry and offended. The Los Angeles Times reported that Capote seemed "as if he daydreaming about some anger against conventional morality". Novelist Merle Miller issued a complaint about the picture at a publishing forum, and the "Truman Remote" photo was put in the third edition of Mad (making Capote one of the first four forged celebrities) at Mad ). Humoris Max Shulman shows the same pose for dustjacket photos in his collection, Max Shulman's Great Economy Size (1948). The Broadway stage revue New Faces (and subsequent versions of the film) featured a comedy drama in which Ronny Graham parodied Capote, deliberately imitating his pose in Halma's photo. Random House displays Halma's photo in the "This is Truman Capote" ad, and a big blowup is displayed in the bookstore window. Walking on Fifth Avenue, Halma heard two middle-aged women who saw the Capote explosion in the window of a bookstore. When a woman says, "I'm telling you: she's young," the other woman replied, "And I tell you, if he's not young, he's dangerous!" Capote is happy to retell this anecdote.

Stage, screen, and magazine work

In the early 1950s, Capote took Broadway and film, adapting his 1951 novel, The Grass Harp, to a 1952 drama of the same name (later musical films of 1971 and 1995), followed by music < i> House of Flowers (1954), which spawned the song "A Sleepin 'Bee". Capote co-wrote with John Huston, the screenplay for the movie Huston Beat the Devil (1953). Traveling through the Soviet Union with the production of Porgy and Bess tours, he produced a series of articles for The New Yorker that became his first nonfiction work, The Muses Are Heard i> (1956).

In this period he also wrote an autobiography essay for Holiday Magazine - one of his personal favorites - of his life in Brooklyn Heights in the late 1950s, entitled Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir (1959). In November, 2015, The Little Bookroom issued a new edition of the coffee table of the work, which included previously unpublished portraits of Capie by David Attie, and Attie street photography taken in connection with the essay, entitled Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, With Lost Photos from David Attie . This edition is well-reviewed in the United States and abroad, and also a finalist of the Indie 2016 Book Award.

Breakfast Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (1958) brings together novel titles and three short stories: "House of Flowers", "A Diamond Guitar" and "A Christmas Memory". Tiffany's Honeymoon Holly Golightly became one of Capote's famous creations, and the book's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of my generation".

Novella itself should have been published in Harper's Bazaar's July 1958 edition, months before its publication in book form by Random House. But Harper's publisher, the Hearst Corporation, began demanding changes to Capote's tart language, which he reluctantly made because he liked the photographs of David Attie and the design work by Harper art director Alexey Brodovitch who accompanied the text. But despite his obedience, Hearst tells Harper not to run his novel. The language and subject matter are still considered "unsuitable", and there is a concern that Tiffany, a large advertiser, will react negatively. Angry Capote reselled the novel to Esquire for the November 1958 edition; with his own account, he told Esquire he would only be interested in doing so if the original photo series of Attie was included, but to his disappointment the magazine contained only one full page of Attie's drawings (the others were later used as a cover of at least one edition novel novel "). This novel was published by Random House shortly thereafter.

For Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's is a turning point, as he explains to Roy Newquist ( Counterpoint , 1964):

I think I already have two careers. One of them is a precocity career, a young man who published a series of books that are truly extraordinary. I can even read it now and evaluate them well, as if they were a stranger's job... My second career started, I guess it really started with Breakfast at Tiffany's. This involves a different point of view, a different prose style to some extent. In fact, prose style is a development from one to the other - pruning and depletion to a calmer and clearer prose. I do not think of it as moving, in many ways, as another, or even original, but more difficult to do. But I can not achieve what I want to do, where I want to go. Presumably this new book is as close as I will get, at least strategically.

In Cold Blood

The "New Book", In Cold Blood: The True Account of Multiple Murders and its Consequences (1965), was inspired by a 300-word article that ran on November 16, 1959 New York Times . The story describes the unexplained killing of the Clutter family in rural Holcomb, Kansas, and quotes the local sheriff saying, "This is apparently the case of a psychopathic killer." Enchanted by this brief news, Capote traveled with Harper Lee to Holcomb and visited the scene of the massacre. Over the next few years, he became acquainted with everyone involved in the investigation and most of the population in the small town and the area. Instead of noting during the interview, Capote had a conversation into memory and immediately wrote the quote as soon as the interview ended. He claims his retention retention for verbatim conversations has been tested on "over 90%". Lee enters the community by making friends with Capote wives who want to be interviewed.

Capote recalled his years in Kansas when he was speaking at the San Francisco International Film Festival of 1974:

I spent four years in and around western Kansas there during research for the book and then the film. How does it feel? It was very quiet. And difficult. Although I have many friends there. I have to, otherwise I can never examine the book properly. The reason is I want to make an experiment in journalistic writing, and I'm looking for a subject that has enough proportion. I've done a lot of narrative journalistic writing in experimental veins in the 1950s for The New Yorker ... But I'm looking for something very special that will give me a lot of scope. I have come with two or three different subjects and each for whatever reason is dry after I do a lot of work on them. And one day I picked up The New York Times , and the road in my backyard saw this very small item. And that's just saying, "Kansas Farmer Slain, Four's Family is Slain in Kansas". That little thing. And the community is completely unused, and that is a total mystery about how it can happen, and what happens. And I do not know what it is. I think it is that I do not know anything about Kansas or any part of the country or anything else. And I thought, "Yes, that will be a new perspective for me"... And I said, "Well, I'll just go there and look around and see what this is." And maybe this is the subject I'm looking for. Maybe this kind of crime... in a small town. It has no publicity around it and has some strange oddities about it. So I went there, and I arrived just two days after Clutters funeral. Everything is a complete mystery and for two and a half months. Nothing happens. I stayed there and continued researching and researching it and being very friendly with the various authorities and detectives on the case. But I never know whether it will be interesting or not. You know, I mean something can happen. They can never catch the killer. Or if they catch the killers... maybe it's something that does not interest me at all. Or maybe they will never talk to me or want to work with me. But because it happened, they arrested them. In January, the case was resolved, and then I made very close contact with these two boys and saw them very often for the next four years until they were executed. But I never knew... when I was even half a book, when I had done it for a year and a half, I was dishonest knowing whether I would continue it or not, did it eventually evolve into something worthy of all efforts that. Because it's a tremendous effort.

In Cold Blood was published in 1966 by Random House after being serialized at The New Yorker . The "nonfiction novel," as Capote labeled it, brought her literary recognition and became an international bestseller, but Capote would never finish another novel after that.

A feud between Capote and British art critic Kenneth Tynan erupted on the pages of The Observer after Tynan's review of Cold Blood implies that Capote wants an execution so that the book will have a final effective. Tynan writes:

We speak, in the long run, about responsibility; debts owed to those who give it - to the last autobiographical brackets - to the subject and the livelihood... For the first time an influential writer from the front rank has been placed in a special position of intimacy with the criminals who will die, and - in my view - done less than he might have to save them. The focus narrows sharply on priority: Does work come first, or does it live? An attempt to help (by providing new psychiatric testimony) may easily fail: what is missed is any sign that has ever been contemplated.

The author of a true crime, Jack Olsen also commented on the making:

I recognize it as a work of art, but I know falsehood when I see it, "Olsen said. Capote is fully made quote and the whole scene... This book makes something like $ 6 million in 1960 money, and no one wants to discuss anything wrong with such moneymakers in the publishing business. "Nobody except Olsen and a few others, her criticism is quoted in Esquire, which Capote replied," Jack Olsen is just jealous. "

That's right, of course, "Olsen said," I'm jealous - all that money? I have been assigned a Clutter case by Harper & amp; Row until we found out that Capote and his cousin Haric Lee were already at Dodge City for six months. "Olsen explained," The book does two things. This makes true crime an attractive, successful commercial genre, but also begins the process of undermining it. I blew the whistle in my own weak way. I just published some books at that time - but because it is a very well written book, no one wants to hear it.

Alvin Dewey Jr., detective of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation described in Cold Blood, later said that the last scene, where he visited Clutter's tomb, was Capote's discovery, while the other Kansas resident Capote interviewed stated that they or their families are misinterpreted or misquoted. Dewey and his wife Marie became Capote's friends during Capote spending time in Kansas to collect research for his book. Dewey gave Capote access to case files and other items related to the investigation and to members of the Clutter family, including Nancy Clutter's diary. When the film version of the book was made in 1967, Capote arranged for Marie Dewey to receive $ 10,000 from Columbia Pictures as a paid consultant for the filming.

Another work portrayed by Capote as "nonfiction" was later reportedly largely made. In a 1992 article in the Sunday Times, journalists Peter and Leni Gillman investigated the source of "Handcarved Coffins", the story in Capote Music for Chameleons's last subtitled "nonfiction account on American crime ". They did not find a series of reported American killings in the same city that covered all the details of Capote described - miniature coffin delivery, rattlesnake snake, beheadings, etc. Instead, they find that some of the details are very similar to those that have not been resolved. the case where Al Dewey's investigators have worked. Their conclusion is that Capote has found the rest of the story, including his encounter with the murderous suspect, Quinn.

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Celebrity

Capote is openly homosexual. One of his first serious lovers was Smith College professor Newton Arvin, who won the National Book Award for the biography of Herman Melville in 1951 and to whom Capote presented Other Voices, Other Rooms . However, Capote spent most of his life until his death partnered with Jack Dunphy, a fellow writer. In his book, "Dear Genius..." A Memoir of My Life with Truman Capote, Dunphy tries both to explain the Capote he knows and loves in their relationship and is very successful-driven and, drugs and alcohol that are outside their relationship. This may provide the most profound and intimate views on Capote's life, outside of his own works. Although the relationships of Capote and Dunphy survive the majority of Capote, it seems they both live, sometimes, live differently. Their sometimes separate dwellings allow autonomy in relationships and, as Dunphy admits, "his [sadness] sadness watched Capote drink and take medicine."

Capote is famous for his distinctive, high-pitched voice and strange vocal behavior, his unusual dressing manner, and his make-up. She often confessed to intimate people she never met, like Greta Garbo. He claims to have had many relationships with men who are considered heterosexual, including, he claims, Errol Flynn. She travels in various social circles, hobnobbing with writers, critics, business tycoons, philanthropists, Hollywood and theater celebrities, nobles, and members of the upper class, both in the US and abroad. Part of his public persona is the old competition with author Gore Vidal. Their rivalry prompted Tennessee Williams to complain: " You'd think they were running neck-and-neck for some great gold prizes." Regardless of his favorite authors (Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and Marcel Proust), Capote received faint praise for other writers. However, the person who received his good support was journalist Lacey Fosburgh, author of Closing Time: The Real Story of Goodborn Killings (1977). He also claimed admiration for Andy Warhol's The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & amp; Back Again .

Although Capote has never fully embraced the gay rights movement, his own openness about homosexuality and his encouragement for openness in others makes him an important player in the field of gay rights. In his work "Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture in the Midcentury," Jeff Solomon details the meeting between Capote and Lionel and Diana Trilling - two New York literary intellectuals and critics - where Capote questions Lionel's motives, which recently published a book on EM Forster but has ignored the author's homosexuality. Solomon argues:

When Capote confronts Trillings on the train, he attacks their identities as literary and social critics committed to literature as a tool for social justice, able to question both themselves and their society's preconceptions, and be sensitive to prejudices based on their heritage and, in Diana's case, gender.

Years after In Cold Blood

Now more sought than ever, Capote occasionally writes short articles for magazines, and also immerses himself deeper in the jet set world. Gore Vidal once observed, "Truman Capote has tried, with some success, to enter the world I have tried, with some success, to get out of ."

In the late 1960s, he became friendly with Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Radziwill is an aspiring actress and has been selected for her performance in the production of The Philadelphia Story in Chicago. Capote was assigned to write a teleplay for a 1967 television production starring Radziwill: an adaptation of the classic Otto Preminger movie Laura (1944). The adaptation, and performance of Radzi, in particular, received an indifferent review and poor judgment; arguably, it was Capote's first major professional setback. Radziwill replaced older Babe Paley as his primary female companion in public during the 1970s.

On November 28, 1966, in honor of Katharine Graham's publisher Katharine Graham, Capote hosted a now legendary mask ball, called the Black and White Balls, at the Grand Ballroom of the New York City Plaza Hotel. It is considered a social event not only in that season but much to follow, with The New York Times and other publications that provide considerable coverage. Capote hangs valuable invitations for months, insulting early supporters like fellow writers Southern Carson McCullers as he determines who is "in" and who "gets out".

Despite previous statements that a person "lost an IQ point for every year spent on the West Coast," he bought a home in Palm Springs and started enjoying a more purposeless and drinking lifestyle. This resulted in a fierce fight with Dunphy, with whom he had shared a non-exclusive relationship since the 1950s. Their partnership changed shape and continued as nonsexual, and they were separated during most of the 1970s.

Capote never finishes another novel after In Cold Blood. The scarcity of new prose and other failures, including rejected scenarios for the 1974 Paramount adaptation of The Great Gatsby , was opposed by Capote frequently visiting talk show circuits. In 1972, Capote accompanied The Rolling Stones on their first American tour since 1969 as a correspondent for Rolling Stone. He eventually refused to write articles, so the magazine regained interest by publishing, in April 1973, an author interview conducted by Andy Warhol. The previously published collection of essays and reportages, The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places , appeared later that year.

In July 1973, Capote met John O'Shea, Midland Bank's vice president of Marine Midland Bank in Long Island, while visiting the New York baths. The father of three married children does not identify himself as homosexual or bisexual, considering his visit as "a kind of masturbation". However, O'Shea finds Capote's riches enthralling and harboring aspirations to become a professional writer. After perfecting their relationship in Palm Springs, both are engaged in a war of jealousy and manipulation that continues for the rest of the decade. The old friends were shocked when O'Shea, who officially worked as Capote manager, attempted to control the author's entirety and business writer entirely.

Answered Prayer

Through his jet organizing the social life Capote has collected observations for novel lectures, Answered prayers (eventually to be published as Answered prayers: Unfinished Novels ). The book, which has been in the planning stages since 1958, is intended to be the equivalent of America's Marcel Proust's In Lost Time Search and the culmination of the "novel nonfiction" format. Originally scheduled for publication in 1968, the novel was finally delayed, at Capote's insistence, until 1972. Due to the delay, he was forced to return the money he received for the film rights to 20th Century Fox. Capote talks about the novel in the interview, but continues to postpone the delivery date.

Capote allowed Esquire to publish four chapters of an unfinished novel in 1975 and 1976. The first one appeared, "Mojave", running as an independent short story and well received, but the second, "La CÃÆ'Â 'te Basque 1965 ', partly based on the dysfunctional personal lives of Capote's friends, William S. Paley and Babe Paley, caused controversy. Although the issue that featured "La CÃÆ'Â'te Basque" was sold out immediately after publication, his much-talked betrayal of Capote secrets being alienated from his established base, a wealthy middle-aged female friend, fearing intimate and often dirty details of them as though glamorous life will be open to the public. Two other chapters - "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCloud" - appear later. The essays were meant to form a long opening part of the novel, they showed marked changes in narrative sounds, introduced more complex plot structures, and together formed the mosaic of novels from memoirs and fictional gossip. The "Unclean Monster", which itself is almost as long as Breakfast at Tiffany's, contains a veiled satire from Tennessee Williams, whose friendship with Capote has become tense.

"La CÃÆ'Â'te Basque 1965"

"La CÃÆ'Â'te Basque 1965" was published as an individual chapter in the Esquire magazine in November 1975. The word kati starts from its unfinished novel Answered prayer , marking the catalyst the social suicide of Truman Capote. Many Capote female friends, nicknamed "swans", are featured in the text, some under pseudonyms and others with their real names. This chapter is said to have revealed the dirty secrets of these women, and therefore airs the "dirty laundry" of the New York City elite. The Fall of "La CÃÆ'Â'te Basque 1965" sees Truman Capote being ostracized from New York society, and from many of his former friends.

Chapter of Answered prayers , â € Å"La CÃÆ'Â'te Basqueâ € starts with Jonesy, the main character is said to be based on Truman Capote's own mix and the serial murder victim of Herbert Clutter (on whom > In Cold Blood begins), meets Lady Ina Coolbirth on New York City street. This woman, described as "an American married to British chemical tycoons and many women in every way", is widely rumored to be based on New York Slim Keith socialite. Lady Ina Coolbirth invites Jonesy to lunch at La CÃÆ'Â'te Basque. A gossip tale about the New York elite came later.

Gloria Vanderbilt and Carol Matthau were first met, both women gossiping about Princess Margaret, Prince Charles, and other members of the British royal family. An awkward moment later occurs when Gloria Vanderbilt has a run-in with her first husband and fails to recognize it. Only on reminder Ny. Matthau that Gloria realizes who she is. Both women got rid of the incident and linked it to ancient history.

The characters of Lee Radziwill and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were met when they entered the restaurant together. Sisters, they attract the attention of the room even though they only talk to each other. Lady Coolbirth took the liberty of portraying Lee as "made remarkably, like the Tanagra statue" and Jacqueline as "photogenic" but "unrefined, exaggerated".

Ann Hopkins's character was later introduced when he secretly entered the restaurant and sat down with a priest. Ann Hopkins was likened to Ann Woodward. Ina Coolbirth tells the story of how Mrs. Hopkins eventually killed her husband. When she threatens to divorce her, she begins to grow a rumor that a thief is harassing their environment. The official police report said that when she and her husband slept in separate rooms, Mrs. Hopkins heard someone go into his bedroom. In his panic, he grabs his gun and shoots the intruder; Unbeknownably the intruder is actually her husband, David Hopkins (or William Woodward, Jr.). Ina Coolbirth suggests however, that Mr. Hopkins was actually shot in the bathroom; such as the wealth and power of the Hopkins family that the murder charge or whisper just drifted on examination. It was rumored that Ann Woodward was warned before the time of Capote's publication and content "La CÃÆ'Â'te Basque", and began suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills as a result.

An incident about the character of Sidney Dillon (or William S. Paley) was later discussed between Jonesy and Mrs. Coolbirth. Sidney Dillon is said to have told Ina Coolbirth this story because they have a history as an ex-lover. One night when Cleo Dillon (Babe Paley) was out of town, in Boston, Sidney Dillon attended an event where she sat next to the wife of a famous New York governor. Both began to tease and finally went home together. While Ina points out that Sidney Dillon loves his wife, it is his unending need to be accepted by New Yorkers who motivate him to be unfaithful. Sidney Dillon and the woman sleep together, and after that. Dillon found an enormous blood stain on the sheets, which represented his taunts. Mr. Dillon then spent the rest of the night and morning washing the sheets by hand, boiling water in an attempt to hide his unfaithfulness from his wife who would arrive home the same morning. In the end, Dillon fell asleep on a damp sheet and woke up with a note from his wife telling him that she had arrived while she was sleeping, did not want to wake her, and that she would see her at home.

After the publication "La CÃÆ'Â'te Basque" is said to have encouraged Truman Capote to a new level of drug abuse and alcoholism, especially since he claimed not to anticipate the reaction that would lead to his personal life.

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Recent years

In the late 1970s, Capote came in and out of a drug rehabilitation clinic, and news of his failures often reached the public. In 1978, talk show host Stanley Siegel conducted an aerial interview with Capote, who, in remarkable drunkenness, admitted that he had been awake for 48 hours and when asked by Siegel, "What will happen unless you lick this problem of medicine treatment and alcohol? "Capote replied:" The obvious answer is that in the end, I mean, I will kill myself... without intending. "The live broadcast made national headlines. One year later, when he feels betrayed by Lee Radziwill in hostility with Gore Vidal's eternal enemy, Capote arranges a return visit to Stanley Siegel's show, this time to give a strange comic show revealing an incident where Vidal was expelled from Kennedy White House due to poisoning. Capote also goes into obscene details about Lee Radziwill's personal life and his sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Andy Warhol, who has looked upon the author as a mentor in his early days in New York and often party with Capote in Studio 54, agrees to paint Capote's portrait as a "personal gift" instead of Capote's short cut contribution to Warhol. month for a year in column form, Conversation with Capote. Initially the pieces consist of recording conversations, but soon Capote avoids tape recorders supporting semi-fiction "portrait conversations". These pieces form the basis for the best-selling Music for Chameleon (1980). Capote undergoes a facelift, loses weight and experiments with hair transplants. Nevertheless, Capote could not overcome his dependence on drugs and liquor and was bored with New York in the early 1980s.

After the revocation of his driver's license (the result of speeding near his Long Island residence) and the seizure of hallucinations in 1980 requiring hospitalization, Capote became fairly closed. This hallucinations continued and medical scans finally revealed that the mass of his brain had clearly shrunk. On rare occasions when he was clear, he continued to promote Answered Prayers for being nearing completion and reportedly planning a repeat of the Black and White Balls to be held in Los Angeles or a more exotic place. in South America. On several occasions, he can still write. In 1982, a new short story, "One Christmas," appeared in the December issue of Ladies' Home Journal ; the following year became like its predecessor A Christmas Memory and The Thanksgiving Visitor, a holiday gift book. In 1983, "Remembering Tennessee," an essay in honor of Tennessee Williams, who died in February of that year, appeared in Playboy magazine.

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Death

Capote died in Bel Air, Los Angeles, on August 25, 1984, aged 59. According to a coronary report, the cause of death was "complicated liver disease by phlebitis and dual drug intoxication." He died at the home of his old friend Joanne Carson, the ex-wife of late-night TV host Johnny Carson, who in his Capote program has often been a guest. Gore Vidal responded to Capote's death by calling it "a wise career move."

Capote was cremated and his body reportedly divided between Carson and Jack Dunphy (though Dunphy stated that he received all the ashes). Carson says he keeps the ashes in an urn in the room where he died. The gray was reportedly stolen during a Halloween party in 1988 along with $ 200,000 of jewelry, but was later returned six days later, found in a garden hose rolled up on the back steps of Carson Bel Air's house. The ash was reportedly stolen again when it was taken to the production of Tru but the thief was arrested before leaving the theater. Carson bought a basement at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. In 2013 the producers offered to fly Carson and ash to New York for the production of Broadway at Breakfast at Tiffany's. Carson declined the offer. Dunphy died in 1992, and in 1994, both his ashes and Capote were reportedly spread in Crooked Pond, between Bridgehampton, New York, and Sag Harbor, New York on Long Island, close to Sagaponack, New York, where both had maintained properties with individual homes for many years. The Crooked Pool was chosen because the money from the Dunphy and Capote plantations was donated to the Nature Conservancy, which in turn was used to buy 20 hectares around the Crooked Pond in an area called "Long Pond Greenbelt." The stone markers indicate the point at which their mixed ashes are thrown into the pool. By 2016, some of Capote's ashes previously owned by Joanne Carson are auctioned off by the Julien Auction.

Capote also maintains property in Palm Springs, a condo in Switzerland that is mostly occupied by seasonal Dunphy, and a primary residence at 860 United Nations Plaza in New York City. Capote's will provide that after Dunphy's death, literary credentials will be established, sustained by income from Capote's work, to fund literary prizes, scholarships and scholarships, including Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Newton Arvin Memory, commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin, professor and critic of Smith College who lost his job after his homosexuality was revealed. Thus, the Truman Capote Literary Trust was established in 1994, two years after Dunphy's death.

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Permanent hometown exhibition

Capote's childhood was the focus of a permanent exhibition at Monroeville, the Old Courthouse Alabama Museum, which covered his life in Monroeville with his Faulk cousin and how his early years were reflected in his writing. The exhibition brings together photographs, letters, and memorabilia to paint a portrait of Capote's early life in Monroeville. Jennings Faulk Carter donated the collection to the Museum in 2005. The collection consists of 12 handwritten letters (1940s-60s) from Capote to his favorite aunt, Mary Ida Carter (Jennings mother). Many of the items in his mother's collection and Virginia Hurd Faulk, Carter's cousin with whom Capote lived as a child.

The exhibit features many references to Sook, but two items in particular have always been a favorite of visitors: Sook's "Many Colors of Colors" and Truman's baby blankets. Truman's first cousin remembered that as a child, she and Truman had never had trouble finding Sook in a dark house on South Alabama Avenue because they were only looking for the bright colors of her coat. Truman's baby blanket was the "granny square" blanket Sook had made for her. The blanket became one of Truman's most treasured possessions, and his friends said he was rarely without it - even when traveling. In fact, he brought a blanket with him when he flew from New York to Los Angeles to be with Joanne Carson on August 23, 1984. According to Joanne Carson, when she died at her home on August 25, her last words were, "Here I am, this Buddy, "followed by," I'm cold. "Buddy is Sook's name for her.

Capote on movie

In 1961, Capote's novel Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), about a flamboyant New York party girl named Holly Golightly, was filmed by director Blake Edwards and starred by Audrey Hepburn in many ways considers his deciding role, though Capote never approves many changes to the story, made to attract a mass audience.

Capote's childhood experience was captured in the memoirs of A Christmas Memory (1956), which he adapted for television and told. Directed by Frank Perry, aired on December 21, 1966, at ABC Stage 67, and featured Geraldine Page in an Emmy Award-winning performance.

When Richard Brooks directed In Cold Blood , a 1967 novel adaptation, with Robert Blake and Scott Wilson, he filmed at the real Clutter house and other Holcomb, Kansas locations.

Capote narrates The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967), a sequel to A Christmas Memory , filmed by Frank Perry on Pike Road, Alabama. Geraldine Page again won the Emmy for her performance in this one hour teleplay.

The ABC Stage 67 teleplay was later incorporated into the anthology film Perry 1969 Trilogy (aka ), which also included the adaptation of "Miriam "and" Among the Paths to Eden ".

The murder of Neil Simon's murder mystery (1976) gave Capote an acting role, portraying Lionel Twain's passive millionaire who invited the world's leading detectives together to a dinner party to ask them solve the murder. The show gave him a Golden Globe Award nomination (Best Acting Debut in Moving Images). At the beginning of the film, there is a notion that Twain has ten fingers but no pinkie finger. Actually, Capote's little finger is huge. In the film, Capote's character is very critical of detective fiction from the likes of Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett.

Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) includes a scene in which Alvy (Allen) and Annie (Diane Keaton) observe passersby in the park. Alvy's comment, "Oh, there's a winner of the Visible Contest-Like Truman Capote". The real passerby is Truman Capote (who appears in unsecured movies).

Other Votes, Other Rooms (1995) starred in David Speck in the lead role of Joel Sansom. Revisiting this atmospheric Southern Gothic film at The New York Times, Stephen Holden writes:

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Bibliografi

Archive source

• Truman Capote's letters, circa 1924-1984 (16 linear feet) are housed in the New York Public Library
• Truman Capote's paper, 1947-1965 (3.2 linear feet) is stored in the Library of Congress

External links

• Pati Hill (Spring-Summer 1957). "Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17". Paris Review .
• Truman Capote in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
• Truman Capote on IMDb
• 90622 Truman Capote on Broadway Internet Database
• Truman Capote on the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Truman Capote in the Search of the Mausoleum
• Truman Capote Literary Society on Facebook
• Works by or about Truman Capote in the library (WorldCat catalog)
• Truman Capote: Life & amp; Works
• Truman Capote reads "A Christmas Memory"
• FBI file in Truman Capote

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