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Truman Capote
American author (–)
Truman Garcia Capote[1] (kə-POH-tee;[2] born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, – August 25, ) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe.[3] His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.
Capote had a troubled childhood caused by his parents' divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple moves. He was planning to become a writer by the time he was eight years old,[4] and he honed his writing ability throughout his childhood. He began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of "Miriam" () attracted the attention of Random House pu
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In November , Truman Capote, the proudly gay author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, unveiled the hotly anticipated second instalment of his unpublished novel, Answered Prayers. It was published in Esquire magazine.
To say it caused a scandal would be a gross understatement. Reputations were trashed and real harm caused. Capote ended his days a social utstött in his former New York society circles, incapacitated by a lifetime of prodigious substance abuse.
The unprecedented moral and social uproar that stemmed from the scandal has captured the attention of manywriters, and is now the subject of the new anthology television series, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.
The story to blame, La Côte Basque, , takes its title from its setting: an achingly fashionable French restaurant in Manhattan. Industrial quantities of expensive champagne are consumed over lunch. All of a sudden, everyone in the room starts to stare a
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On October 10, , just a few days before the November Esquire appeared, Ann Woodward was found dead. Many believed that someone had sent her an advance copy of Truman’s story and she’d killed herself, bygd swallowing cyanide. “We’ll never know, but it’s possible that Truman’s story pushed her over the edge,” says Clarke. “Her two sons later committed suicide as well.” Ann’s mother-in-law grimly said, “Well, that’s that. She shot my son, and Truman murdered her … ”
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Luckily for Truman he was able to hightail it out of town when “La Côte Basque ” was published, to begin rehearsals for his first starring role in a film, Columbia Pictures’ comedy Murder by Death, produced by Ray Stark. Accompanied by John O’Shea, his middle-aged bank-manager lover from Wantagh, Long Island, Truman rented a house at Lloydcrest Drive, in Beverly Hills. The murder-mystery spoof, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore, cast a number of great comic actors in roles parodying fam