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Nevertheless, Capote continued to produce successes such as the best-seller Music for Chameleons in A drug and alcohol abuser for years, Capote died of liver cancer and drug intoxication. All Rights Reserved eBooks-Library.

General Reference. General Science. Historical Fiction. Western Fiction. Truman Capote a. Author : Truman Capote. Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi. Rating : 4. Interviews with Capote cover his writing methods, his observations on the wealthy, his outlook on life, and his feelings about the writers who influenced his work. Writing in Esquire in , Phillip K. Tompkins noted factual discrepancies after he traveled to Kansas and talked to some of the same people interviewed by Capote.

In a telephone interview with Tompkins, Mrs. Meier denied that she heard Perry cry and that she held his hand as described by Capote. In Cold Blood indicates that Meier and Perry became close, yet she told Tompkins she spent little time with Perry and did not talk much with him.

Tompkins concluded:. Capote was 5 feet 3 inches tall [11] and openly homosexual in a time when it was socially acceptable among artists, but rarely talked about. Capote was well known for his distinctive, high-pitched voice and odd vocal mannerisms, his offbeat manner of dress and his fabrications.

He often claimed to intimately know people he had in fact never met, such as Greta Garbo. He professed to have had numerous liaisons with men thought to be heterosexual, including, he claimed, Errol Flynn. He traveled in eclectic circles, hobnobbing with authors, critics, business tycoons, philanthropists, Hollywood and theatrical celebrities, royalty, and members of high society, both in the U. Part of his public persona was a long-standing rivalry with writer Gore Vidal "Truman Capote has tried, with some success, to get into a world that I have tried, with some success, to get out of.

It was considered the social event of not only that season but of many to follow. The New York Times and other publications gave it considerable coverage, and Deborah Davis wrote an entire book about the event, Party of the Century , excerpted by The Independent. Capote dangled the prized invitations for months, snubbing early supporters like Carson McCullers as he determined who was "in" and who was "out.

Actress Candice Bergen was bored at the ball. Capote's elevator man danced the night away with a woman who didn't know his pedigree.

After the success of In Cold Blood , Capote's publisher re-released his earlier works, including a 20th anniversary edition of Other Voices, Other Rooms and a holiday gift book edition of his story "A Christmas Memory.

Now more sought-after than ever, Capote wrote occasional brief articles for magazines, and also entrenched himself more deeply in the world of the jet set. Radziwill was an aspiring actress and had appeared to deplorable reviews in an engagement of The Philadelphia Story in Chicago. Feeling that the part simply wasn't tailored to her abilities, Capote was commissioned to write the teleplay for a TV adaptation of the classic Otto Preminger film Laura starring Radziwill.

The adaptation, and Radziwill's performance in particular, received indifferent reviews and poor ratings; arguably, it was Capote's first major professional setback.

Radziwill supplanted the older Babe Paley as his primary female companion in public throughout the better part of the s.

Despite the assertion earlier in life that one "lost an IQ point for every year spent on the West Coast," he purchased a home in Palm Springs and began to indulge in a more aimless lifestyle and heavy drinking. This resulted in bitter quarreling with the more retiring Jack Dunphy with whom he had shared a non-exclusive relationship since the s. Their partnership changed form and continued as a nonsexual one, and they were separated during much of the s.

Dunphy was irritated by the unwavering substance abuse and even went so far as to allege that Capote had slept with Radziwill. However, others have alleged that Dunphy, a writer and playwright of far less renown, was unappreciative of Capote's gifts including a Swiss condominium that Capote had little use for and financial support.

The dearth of new writing and other failures, including a rejected screenplay for Paramount's adaptation of The Great Gatsby , was counteracted by Capote's frequenting of the talk show circuit. While managing to take extensive notes for the project and visit old friends from the In Cold Blood days in Kansas City, he feuded with Mick Jagger and ultimately refused to write the article.

The magazine eventually recouped its interests by publishing, in April , an interview of the author conducted by Andy Warhol. The married father of three did not identify as homosexual or bisexual, perceiving his visits as being a "kind of masturbation". However, O'Shea found Capote's fortune alluring and harbored aspirations to become a professional writer.

After consummating their relationship in Palm Springs, the two engaged in an ongoing war of jealousy and manipulation for the remainder of the decade. Longtime friends were appalled when O'Shea, who was officially employed as Capote's manager, attempted to take total control of the author's literary and business interests. Through his jet-set social life Capote had been discreetly conducting research unbeknownst to his friends and benefactors for his tell-all Answered Prayers eventually to be published as Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel.

The book, which had been in the planning stages since , was intended to be the American equivalent of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time and a culmination of the "nonfiction novel" format. Initially scheduled for publication in , the novel was eventually delayed at Capote's insistence to Because of the delay, he was forced to return money received for the film rights to 20th Century Fox.

Capote spoke about the novel in interviews, but continued to delay the delivery date. By , public demand for Answered Prayers had reached a critical mass, with many speculating that Capote had not even written a single word of the book. He permitted Esquire to publish four chapters of the unfinished novel in and Paley and Babe Paley, arguably Capote's best friends, generated controversy.

Another two chapters, "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCloud", appeared subsequently; intended to form the long opening section of the novel, they displayed a marked shift in narrative voice, introduced a more elaborate plot structure, and together formed a novella-length mosaic of fictionalized memoir and gossip. In the late s, Capote was in and out of rehab clinics, and news of his various breakdowns frequently reached the public.

In , talk show host Stanley Siegal did a live on-air interview with Capote, who, in an extraordinarily intoxicated state, confessed that he might kill himself. One year later, when he felt betrayed by Lee Radziwill in a feud with perpetual nemesis Gore Vidal, Capote arranged a return visit to Stanley Siegal's show, this time to deliver a bizarrely comic performance revealing salacious personal details about Radziwill and her sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

In an ironic twist, Warhol who had made a point of seeking out Capote when he first arrived in New York provided the author with the platform for his next artistic renewal.

Warhol, who often partied with Capote at Studio 54, agreed to paint Capote's portrait as "a personal gift"—rather than for the six-figure sums he usually charged—in exchange for Capote contributing short pieces to Warhol's Interview magazine every month for a year.

Initially the pieces were to consist of tape-recorded conversations, but soon Capote dispensed with the tape recorder and chose instead to craft meticulously composed "conversational portraits" that applied his literary skills to the magazine's dialogue-driven format. Out of this creative burst came the pieces that would form the basis for the bestselling Music for Chameleons To celebrate this unexpected renaissance, he underwent a facelift, lost weight and experimented with hair transplants.

Nevertheless, Capote was unable to overcome his reliance upon drugs and liquor and had grown bored with New York by the turn of the s. After the revocation of his driver's license the result of speeding near his Long Island residence and a hallucinatory seizure in that required hospitalization, Capote became fairly reclusive. These hallucinations continued unabated and scans revealed that his brain mass had perceptibly shrunk.

On the rare occasions when he was lucid, he continued to hype Answered Prayers as being nearly complete and was reportedly planning a reprise of the Black and White Ball to have been held either in Los Angeles or a more exotic locale in South America. On a few occasions, he was still able to write. In , a new short story, "One Christmas", appeared in the December issue of Ladies' Home Journal and the following year it became, like its predecessors "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor", a holiday gift book.

In , "Remembering Tennessee", an essay in tribute to Tennessee Williams, who had died in February of that year, appeared in Playboy magazine. Capote died in Los Angeles, California, on August 25, , aged According to the coroner's report the cause of death was "liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication.

Dunphy died in , and in both his and Capote's ashes were scattered at Crooked Pond, between Bridgehampton, New York and Sag Harbor, New York on Long Island, close to where the two had maintained a property with individual houses for many years. Capote also maintained the property in Palm Springs, a condominium in Switzerland that was mostly occupied by Dunphy seasonally, and a primary residence at the United Nations Plaza in New York City. Capote's will provided that after Dunphy's death a literary trust would be established, sustained by revenues from Capote's works, to fund various literary prizes and grants including the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin, the Smith College professor and critic, who lost his job after his homosexuality was exposed.