Capote: A Biography

by Gerald Clarke

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Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the author, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this biography follows Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. It also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writer's descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent--but not before he'd hobnob with the likes of Grace Paley and Lee Radziwill, feud outrageously with Gore Vidal and Jacqueline Susann, and stage at New York's Plaza Hotel the sensational Black and White Ball.--From publisher description.… (more)

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I was not expecting to enjoy this nearly as much as I did, a really fantastic engaging account of Capote's life. (

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CatherineJay | Dec 30, 2015 |

GREAT CONDITION! (

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leslie440 | Jan 5, 2012 |

a first rate biography of truman capote. a very talented but flawed and tragic man. he was a greek tragic person excellent story (

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michaelbartley | Oct 21, 2011 |

Well written and documented biography of Truman Capote.

Incandescent rise and dark and depressing fall.

Good read. (

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jmatson | Aug 26, 2011 |

Well researched. Excellent! (

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Truman Capote

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Alabama, USA

New York, New York, USA

Verbier, Valais, Switzerland

Venice, Veneto, Italy

Palm Springs, California, USA

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Capote (2005 ∙ IMDb)

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New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction, 1988)

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee (2005)

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"There's the one and only T.C. There was nobody like me before, and there ain't gonna be anybody like me after I'm gone." - Truman Capote, in conversation, June 1984

"And I only wrote half of what I saw . . ." - A quotation from Marco Polo, torn from a magazine and found in the papers of Truman Capote

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To L.A.S. for faith and fortitude

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In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just the opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee.

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Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the author, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this biography follows Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. It also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writer's descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent--but not before he'd hobnob with the likes of Grace Paley and Lee Radziwill, feud outrageously with Gore Vidal and Jacqueline Susann, and stage at New York's Plaza Hotel the sensational Black and White Ball.--From publisher description.

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