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 ...

Ebs Burnough's doc portrait 'The Capote Tapes' relies partly on interviews conducted by George Plimpton. By John DeFore First-time filmmaker Ebs Burnough, according to his TIFF mini-bio, is a ...

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 ...