Full name: Capote: A Biography

Author: Gerald Clarke Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780786716616 9781439187500 0786716614 1439187509

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. Similar books: Get Happy by Gerald Clarke Alice James by Jean Strouse Paul Newman by Shawn Levy Louisa May Alcott by Martha Saxton Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester Penelope Fitzgerald by Hermione Lee Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley Bravemouth by Pamela Stephenson Uncle Mame by Eric Myers Invisible Writer by Greg Johnson Mary Renault by David Sweetman Flannery by Brad Gooch George Orwell by Gordon Bowker May Sarton by Margot Peters Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster Grateful American by Gary Sinise Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski Desert Flower by Waris Dirie