The tangled tale of Truman Capote's ashes is worthy of the writer ... Leamer had befriended Carson while writing an earlier book about her ex-husband called King of the Night: The Life of Johnny ...

It was April 13, 1965, and Truman Capote was calling to say ... Among the items are telegrams Capote sent while he was writing the book and postcards the author later sent from his winter home ...

At the height of his fame, Truman Capote was a fixture ... criminalized in much of the United States, Capote became known as much for his writing as his larger-than-life persona.

Truman Capote stood in front of the serial killer ... only a few minutes before storming off — abandoning his idea of writing about the case with only a cryptic comment, according to his ...

I n 1956, three years before he began writing his bestselling true-crime book “In Cold Blood,” the already famous author Truman Capote wrote a heartwarming short story about his childhood ...