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Also by Gerald Clarke:

Capote, November 2005
Hardcover
Hollywood At Home, November 2005
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Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote, September 2005
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CAPOTE
By: Gerald Clarke

From instant celebrity at age 23 to overweight, alcoholic loner in his 50s, Truman Capote streaked across the middle of this century on a comet of genius, self-destruction, and fame.

Carroll & Graf
November 2005
Featuring: Truman Capote
636 pages
ISBN: 0786716614
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography

Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, 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 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.

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