From instant celebrity at age 23 to alcoholic loner by mid-life, Truman Capote streaked across the middle of this century on a comet of genius, self-destruction and fame. Drawing on interviews with Capote and with nearly everyone who knew him, and with exclusive access to personal papers, Gerald Clarke has written the definitive biography of an incomparable man and his time. 32-pg. photo insert.
From instant celebrity at age 23 to alcoholic loner by mid-life, Truman Capote streaked across the middle of this century on a comet of genius, self-destruction and fame. Drawing on interviews with Capote and with nearly everyone who knew him, and with exclusive access to personal papers, Gerald Clarke has written the definitive biography of an incomparable man and his time. 32-pg. photo insert.