When Capote, nicknamed “Buddy,” wasn’t playing ... was a merchant and the family never lacked for money, although Sook and young Truman would not have had money of their own and it is ...

Michael Disher has brought staged readings of Truman Capote’s holiday ... like so many young boys, we can collectively feel Capote dreaming of that pearl-handled knife, a radio, a box of puzzles ...

Truman Capote went from society darling to social pariah after publishing secrets about the glamorous women of Manhattan's elite. "Much ink has been spilled" over the rise and fall of this ...

It was April 13, 1965, and Truman Capote was calling to say he wouldn’t be visiting condemned killers Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith on the eve of their executions. Charles McAtee ...

Famed writer Truman Capote, southern born and bred but now ... When the police eventually charge suspects, two young men named Dick Hickcock and Perry Smith, Truman uses those same tactics to ...

Truman Capote's stage adaptation of his novel ... The defects, such as the dubious comic relief provided by he shenanigans of a young woman named Baby Love Dallas, can be sharpened up in a ...