Based on interviews with the author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffanys and with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive, and generously illustrated biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama toMoreBased on interviews with the author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffanys and with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive, and generously illustrated biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society.
Candidly, too, it recounts a gifted and celebrated writers descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent.