Media - Books by or about Truman Capote

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A Capote Readerbuy
Truman Capote could write dark drama and high comic fiction with equal skill. The charisma of his personality translated to the page. His fame eclipsed his actual writing, and diminished the seriousness of his reputation, and everyone should read this as an introduction to Capote's genius, if they have only heard of him, but haven't read him. "A Jug of Silver" is an especially charming short story. And Capote's interview with one of the Manson family is fascinating, in that it relates a different and believable theory for why the Manson murders went down. Capote is/was one of America's greatest writers.
A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitorbuy
	Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory, " "One Christmas, " and "A Thanksgiving Memory." All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.
The Complete Stories of Truman Capotebuy
	Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood" or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. more...
Conversations with Capote - Lawrence Grobelbuy
	Extraordinary conversations with the writer and celebrity who elevated talk to art and gossip to literature; a candid, controversial, and engrossing read... from a tiny terror who wore brass knuckles on his tongue. Who but Truman Capote would dare to say that about (among many, many others) Jacqueline Onassis, Norman Mailer, Montgomery Clift, Andr Gide, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Radziwill, Tennessee Williams, J. D. Salinger, Gore Vidal, and Elizabeth Taylor? more...
The Critical Response to Truman Capote - Joseph J. Waldmeir, John C. Waldmeirbuy
	One of the most controversial American authors of the twentieth century, Truman Capote is best known as the author of "In Cold Blood" (1966), a work of literary journalism that recounts the slaughter of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. But he also wrote numerous short stories, dozens of nonfiction pieces for popular magazines, several other novels, and some works for Hollywood and Broadway. more...