The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Awardwinning turn. One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Even while his literary achievements were setting the standards that other fiction and nonfiction writers would follow for generations, Capote descended into a spiral of self-destruction and despair. This biography by Gerald Clarke was first published in 1988just four years after Capote's death. In it, Clarke paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the author's lifebased on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the man himself and the people close to him. From the glittering heights of notoriety and parties with the rich and famous to his later struggles with addiction, Capote emerges as a richly multidimensional personboth brilliant and flawed. ';A book of extraordinary substance, a study rich in intelligence and compassion... To read Capote is to have the sense that someone has put together all the important pieces of this consummate artist's life, has given everything its due emphasis, and comprehended its ultimate meaning.' Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal ';Mesmerising... [Capote] reads as if it had been written alongside his life, rather than after it.' Molly Haskell, The New York Times Book Review

The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Awardwinning turn. One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Even while his literary achievements were setting the standards that other fiction and nonfiction writers would follow for generations, Capote descended into a spiral of self-destruction and despair. This biography by Gerald Clarke was first published in 1988just four years after Capote's death. In it, Clarke paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the author's lifebased on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the man himself and the people close to him. From the glittering heights of notoriety and parties with the rich and famous to his later struggles with addiction, Capote emerges as a richly multidimensional personboth brilliant and flawed. ';A book of extraordinary substance, a study rich in intelligence and compassion... To read Capote is to have the sense that someone has put together all the important pieces of this consummate artist's life, has given everything its due emphasis, and comprehended its ultimate meaning.' Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal ';Mesmerising... [Capote] reads as if it had been written alongside his life, rather than after it.' Molly Haskell, The New York Times Book Review