Chronicler of crime, creator of a charismatic call girl, confidant and court jester to high society — and a pioneer in creating the chosen family: These were all sides to Truman Capote, and they’re ...

Truman Capote’s legend endures — for his writings (especially the true-crime novel “In Cold Blood”), his relationship with Harper Lee (immortalized in “To Kill a Mockingbird”), his childhood in ...

The collection, while apparently containing no riveting new material on his life and times, is a coup for the town that was spun into memorable works by Capote and Lee, his childhood friend and ...

When a biography of Truman Capote was published in 1997, a review that ran in the Denver Post distilled his singular place in pop culture to its essence: “The uneducated arriviste from Monroeville, ...

TORONTO -- Doug McGrath, a nice Midland boy, went east for college and later landed a job writing for Saturday Night Live, which would've been a terrifically lucky break except that it "turned out to ...

Now! This very minute." Many of Capote's letters were published in "Too Brief a Treat," a collection edited by Gerald Clarke. Clarke, who wrote a 1988 Capote biography, notes that Capote's letters can ...

MONROEVILLE, Ala. -- Rare family photos and a collection of writer Truman Capote's letters to his favorite aunt in Alabama -- on topics ranging from Harper Lee to Tallulah Bankhead to his longing for ...

Many of Capote’s letters were published in “Too Brief a Treat,” a collection edited by Gerald Clarke. Clarke, who wrote a 1988 Capote biography, notes that Capote’s letters can be found in libraries ...