Based on interviews with the author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's 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 writer's descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent.distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
year: 1989, 2005
call number/section: 921, 920
subjects: capote, truman, 1924-1984. sears, authors, american biography. sears, capote, truman, 1924-1984, authors, american, 20th century, biography, american authors
Editions
Clarke, Gerald
(1989)
Schools: 1
Clarke, Gerald
Distributed by Publishers Group West (2005)
A biography of the American author including his childhood, emergence as a young writer, introduction to the jet set, travels, years of struggle, and descent into a life of alcohol and quarrelsome lovers.
Schools: 3
Clarke, Gerald
Based on interviews with the author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's 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 writer's descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent.distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Schools: 0