Capote: A Biography

About this book

Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffanys as well as with nearly everyone who knew him this absorbing definitive biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. Featuring many photographs this book also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writers descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talentbut not before hed hobnob with the likes of Grace Paley and Lee Radziwill feud outrageously with Gore Vidal and Jacqueline Susann and stage at New Yorks Plaza Hotel the sensational Black and White Ball.