Finding the True Capote

The literary output of the author, screenwriter, essayist, occasional actor, and purveyor of often waspishly malicious gossip Truman Capote (1924–84) was prodigious. He produced a collection of five full-length novels, eight novellas—among them 1958’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s—scores of commentaries, stories, articles, and a series of nonfiction books, including 1965’s In Cold Blood, which has spawned three successive film adaptations and a TV miniseries.