page 167 “‘It’s very hard to describe what Paris…’”: Gore Vidal to GC, May 3, 1972.
page 168 “‘Truman gave me very good advice…’”: Waldemar Hansen to GC, September 7, 1983.
page 168 “The tabloid France-Dimanche…”: Letter from Lin Emery to GC, September 18, 1977, and letter from Georges Tardy to GC, November 7, 1977.
page 168 “‘You don’t haul your friends…’”: Karl Bissinger to GC, May 4, 1976.
page 169 “‘The other day at Natalie Barney’s…’”: Toklas, Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas, page 128.
page 169 “An elderly Frenchwoman of formidable presence…”: Francis Steegmuller, “Meet Jenny Bradley, a Literary Force Extraordinary,” New York Times Book Review, December 11, 1960, page 5.
page 169 (“‘Ah, poor Marcel…’”): Jenny Bradley to GC, November 19, 1978.
page 169 “‘I can see Truman now…’”: Ibid.
page 169 “Miss Barney also had…”: See Wickes, The Amazon of Letters; Herbert R. Lottman, “In Search of Miss Barney,” New York Times Book Review, September 18, 1969, page 2; Meryle Secrest, “Writer Natalie Barney Dies,” Washington Post, February 7, 1972; Secrest, Between Me and Life.
page 171 “When he was growing up, Jacksonville…”: Frederick Fouts to GC, January 19, 1985.
page 171 “‘…about the most beautiful boy anybody had ever seen…’”: Jimmy Daniels to GC, 1976.
page 172 “Adding his own distinctive colors…”: Glenway Wescott to GC, January 31, 1976.
page 172 “‘He invented himself…’”: John B. L. Goodwin to GC, August 20, 1976.
page 172 “‘His handsome profile was…’”: Isherwood, Down There on a Visit, pages 193–94.
page 173 “‘He thought that the world…’”: Bill Harris to GC, May 19, 1976.
page 174 “‘Our disturbing friend just called…’”: TC to Waldemar Hansen, mid-June, 1948.
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page 175 “He arrived from Paris…”: Windham, Footnote to a Friendship, page 15.
page 175 “‘For him Venice was Harry’s Bar…’”: Windham, Footnote to a Friendship, pages 18–19.
page 176 “‘An enchanted, infinitesimal village…’”: TC, The Dogs Bark, page 71.
page 176 “He and Donald chose…”: Windham, Footnote to a Friendship, page 23.
page 176 “‘Peaches precious…’”: TC to Donald Windham, August 3, 1948.
page 177 “‘It was right that I had gone to Europe…’”: TC, The Dogs Bark, page 71.
page 177 “Truman had met Tennessee…”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 178 “‘Aren’t you allowing yourself…’”: Tennessee Williams to Carson McCullers, July 5, 1948.
page 178 “Truman and Tennessee were together…”: Williams, Memoirs, pages 150–51.
page 178 “…that night’s television news…”: Windham, Footnote to a Friendship, pages 25–26.
page 179 “…he was, as Newton phrased it in his diary, ‘much distressed’”: Newton Arvin’s diaries, August 12, 1948.
page 179 “Four days later he added…”: Newton Arvin to Howard Doughty, August 6, 1948.
page 180 “…Truman was subdued and sober”: Newton Arvin’s diaries, August 18, 1948.
page 180 “‘You and your Andrew’”: Howard Doughty to Newton Arvin, July 23, 1948.
page 180 “‘My very dearest Newton’”: Andrew Lyndon to Newton Arvin, undated, spring or summer, 1948.
page 181 “‘Come over, Andrew’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 182 “Holding his three-hundred-dollar prize money…”: TC to Donald Windham, undated, August, 1948.
page 183 “‘Honey, these cuff buttons…’”: Phoebe Pierce Vreeland to GC, April 20, 1976.
page 184 “Two weeks later he recorded…”: Newton Arvin’s diaries, November 7, 1948.
page 184 “‘Sad but also tender…’”: Newton Arvin’s diaries, February 6, 1949.
page 185 “…charged with being ‘a lewd…’”: Edward Kosner, New York Post, September 4, 1960, page 5.
page 186 “‘Day of the Avalanche’”: Newton Arvin’s diaries, September 2, 1960.
page 186 “‘All your friends are…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, September 6, 1960.
page 186 “…delicately, and rather disarmingly…”: TC to Newton Arvin, October 2, 1960.
page 186 “‘He panicked and ratted…’”: Lillian Hellman to GC, April 1, 1981.
page 186 “Writing to his friend Daniel Aaron…”: Quoted in Arvin, American Pantheon, page xvii.
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page 188 “Jack happened to be at Leo’s…”: Leo Lerman to GC, May 5, 1976.
page 189 “‘Good Lord! Who wasn’t there?’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 189 “‘Truman told me he wanted me…’”: Mary Louise Aswell to GC, May 7, 1977.
page 190 “‘My God! You’d think I sold…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, September 15, 1954.
page 190 “‘He had a terrible temper…’”: Olive Daley to GC, August 13, 1979.
page 190 “When his favorite son…”: Olive Daley and Gloria Dunphy to GC, August 13, 1979.
page 191 “‘All the little good in me…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, October 10, 1959.
page 191 “‘Poverty is much more than a…’”: from The Schoolteacher, an unpublished novel by Jack Dunphy.
page 192 “‘When she came to the audition…’”: Agnes de Mille to GC, March 14, 1985.
page 193 “‘Hollywood was screaming for her…’”: Ibid.
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page 195 “He was, in his own words, almost hysterical…”: Williams, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, page 237.
page 196 “‘I think you judge Truman a bit…’”: Ibid.
page 196 “When Jack Warner, who was…”: Williams, Memoirs, page 168.
page 196 “‘What a strange, and strangely…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, April 1, 1949.
page 196 “To Cecil Beaton, with whom, during…”: TC to Cecil Beaton, March 25, 1949.
page 197 “Auden, who had rented a house nearby, extolled…”: Auden, Collected Poems, page 416.
page 198 “‘I am happy that Summer Crossing…’”: Robert Linscott to TC, April 6, 1949.
page 198 “…early in May he was pleased to report…”: TC to Robert Linscott, May 6, 1949.
page 198 “‘Silly goose that I am…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, March 25, 1949.
page 198 “‘Truman was wrapped around him…’”: Williams, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, page 237.
page 198 “‘I am attending to my work…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, May 1, 1949.
page 199 “In a letter to Carson, Tennessee described the arrival…”: Tennessee Williams to Carson McCullers, June 18, 1949.
page 199 “They traveled in an exuberant…”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, June 7, 1949.
page 199 “that ‘ragamuffin city…’”: TC to Donald Windham, August 30, 1949.
page 199 “‘Come to the dock with me…’”: Bowles, Without Stopping, page 291.
page 200 “‘Rhymes with horror…’”: Williams, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, page 228.
page 200 “‘I don’t care how hot…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, August 30, 1949.
page 200 “Cecil Beaton, who arrived in August…”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, page 49.
page 200 “A leader of her claque was Tennessee…”: Williams, Memoirs, page 159.
page 201 “…who wore blue jeans and brown golf shoes…”: Herbert, Second Son, page 124.
page 201 “‘Everything,’ she wrote a friend…”: Dillon, A Little Original Sin, page 182.
page 201 “The best picture of Tangier…”: William Bird, “Eight Powers and a Casbah,” New York Herald Tribune, June 12, 1949, page 58; Joachim Joesten, “Cinderella City,” The Wall Street Journal, December 24, 1951, page 1; “Boom Town,” Fortune, April, 1948.<
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page 201 “…the days slid by…”: TC, The Dogs Bark, page 88.
page 202 “Despite that adolescent display…”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, pages 49–50.
page 202 “‘One day Truman outlined for us…’”: Paul Bowles, letter to GC, March 1, 1976.
page 202 “Two weeks later he confirmed…”: TC to Robert Linscott, September 12, 1949.
page 202 “‘Well, at any rate,’ he said…”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, page 55.
page 203 “He reminded Price’s secretary…”: Judith Jones to GC, March 2, 1976.
page 203 “Interviewing him then…”: René Brest, “Avec Truman Capote à Saint-Germain-des-Prés,” newspaper unknown.
page 204 “‘One thing I want to be sure of…’”: Frank Price to GC, February 20, 1976.
page 204 “Yet he was also bored with traveling…”: TC to John Malcolm Brinnin, November 6, 1949.
page 204 “Brinnin met him at the airport…”: Brinnin, Sextet, pages 46–49.
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page 206 “New York, Truman had told…”: René Brest, op. cit.
page 206 “‘The most richly embroidered legend…’”: Charles J. Rolo, “The New Bohemia,” Flair, February, 1950, page 118.
page 206 “‘Truman, the little monkey…’”: Newton Arvin’s diaries, December 10, 1947.
page 207 “Knowing how such attention…”: Ruth Ford to GC, September 1, 1976.
page 208 “‘I am pleased that Faulkner…’”: TC to William Goyen, December 16, 1950.
page 209 “‘Maybe it seems strange…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, March 20, 1951.
page 209 “…Linscott was enormously…”: William Goyen to GC, December 13, 1976.
page 210 “It was in that square…”: Donald Windham to GC, March 10, 1977.
page 210 “D. H. Lawrence had lived and enjoyed…”: Aldington, Portrait of a Genius, but…, page 223.
page 210 “‘We have had luck, at least…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, May 7, 1950.
page 210 “A stone shack was what…”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, pages 159–60.
page 211 “‘It is very like living…’”: TC, The Dogs Bark, pages 105–6.
page 211 “A girl in her late teens…”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, July 8, 1950.
page 211 “‘He is good-looking…’”: TC, The Dogs Bark, page 115.
page 211 “‘You don’t believe in…’”: Ibid.
page 212 “Eugene O’Neill showed up…”: TC to Donald Windham, April 18, 1951.
page 212 “At Truman’s request, Richard Brooks…”: Richard Brooks to GC, April 30, 1977, Los Angeles.
page 212 “‘Such a newsy letter…’”: TC to Pearl Kazin, May 5, 1951.
page 212 “The Cerfs, on the other hand…”: TC to Phyllis and Bennett Cerf, April 10, 1951.
page 213 “‘It’s SO educational…’”: Ibid.
page 213 “‘It is terribly quiet…’”: TC to William Goyen, April 15, 1950.
page 213 “‘But why are you going…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, May 20, 1950.
page 213 “‘Pearl lamb,’ he wrote…”: TC to Pearl Kazin, June 21, 1950.
page 214 “‘Honey, why are you…’”: TC to Pearl Kazin, October 8, 1950.
page 214 “‘Truman was one of the kindest…’”: Pearl Kazin to GC, August 10, 1976.
page 214 “‘She telephoned me and…’”: Phoebe Pierce Vreeland to GC, April 20, 1976.
page 215 “‘At least the great chest-pounding…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, October, 1950.
page 215 “‘Dear God, I am 26’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, October 30, 1950.
page 215 “Horan’s relationship with the two composers…”: Gruen, Menotti, pages 51–59.
page 216 “Devastated by the downward turn…”: Robert Horan to GC, April 24, 1977.
page 216 “‘The rest of the story is just too…’”: TC to William Goyen, January 19, 1951.
page 216 “‘Have been going through a terrible…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, December 26, 1950.
page 217 “‘Little things keep coming at me…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, January 10, 1951.
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page 219 “‘It is very real to me…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, October, 1950.
page 220 “‘I hope this book will be half-worth…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, October 30, 1950.
page 220 “‘WONDERFUL WONDERFUL…’”: Robert Linscott to TC, September 15, 1950.
page 220 “‘There is a perfection…’”: Robert Linscott to TC, September 18, 1950.
page 220 “‘Rumor has it that you…’”: Robert Linscott to TC, January 16, 1951.
page 220 “‘I adore every word of the novel…’”: Robert Linscott to TC, April 17, 1951.
page 221 “…as daunting as Mount Everest or Kilimanjaro”: TC to Pearl Kazin, April 1, 1951.
page 221 “‘A great deal depends on…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, April 24, 1951.
page 221 “…a ‘kind of slave anguish’”: TC to Robert Linscott, May 3, 1951.
page 221 “‘Oh Bob, I do hope…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, June 4, 1951.
page 221 “‘I’m relieved that it’s…’”: TC to Donald Windham, June 4, 1951.
page 221 “‘You are no doubt indignant…’”: Robert Linscott to TC, June 22, 1951.
page 222 “‘In our opinion, the book…’”: Bennett Cerf to TC, June 22, 1951.
page 222 “‘I cannot endure it that…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, June 27, 1951.
page 223 “‘The test of whether or not…’”: TC, quoted in Cowley, Writers at Work, page 187.
page 223 “‘We must be on our guard…’”: Flaubert, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, page 180. (I have joined two sentences from the same letter without using an ellipsis.)
page 224 “‘If only I were a writer…’”: TC to Donald Windham, September 8, 1959.
page 224 “‘HAVE READ PROOFS…’”: TC to Bennett Cerf, July 9, 1951.
page 224 “‘If it is now in the form…’”: Bennett Cerf to TC, July 10, 1951.
page 224 “Truman’s second novel, said the Sunday New York Herald Tribune…”: Gene Baro, “Truman Capote Matures and Mellows,” New York Herald Tribune Book Review, September 30, 1951, page 4.
page 224 “Orville Prescott in the daily…”: Orville Prescott, “Books of the Times,” New York Times, October 2, 1951, page 25.
page 224 “‘Within the slim compass…’”: Richard Hayes, review of The Grass Harp, The Commonweal, October 26, 1951, pages 73–74.
page 224 “‘All books today are far…’”: Rochelle Girson, “This Week’s Personality,” Roanoke (Virginia) Times, September 30, 1951. (Probably syndicated.)
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page 225 “‘Tell me, darling, do you…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, May 8, 1951.
page 225 “‘The transposition of one art form…’”: TC, “Faulkner Dances,” Theatre Arts, April, 1949, page 49.
page 225 “‘more broke than Little Orphan Annie’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, February 29, 1952.
page 226 “‘I think I do like to work…’”: Cyrus Durgin, “Truman Capote Talks of His First Play, ‘The Grass Harp,’” Boston Sunday Globe, March 2, 1952.
page 227 “‘I have been working so hard…’”: TC to Gloria Dunphy, January 6, 1952.
page 227 “‘Well,’ he told a reporter who…”: Harvey Breit, “Talk with Truman Capote,” New York Times, February 4, 1952.
page 227 “‘Isn’t it extraordinary about George Davis…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, August 26, 1951.
page 227 “…a ‘topflight production…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, December 4, 1951.
page 228 “Saint, taking the recommendation of an experienced…”: Saint Subber to GC, August 12, 1975.
page 228 “‘Between us, he has a certain vulgarity…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, January 5, 1952.
page 228 “Invited to the final rehearsal…”: Virgil Thomson to GC, October, 1975.<
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page 228 “Cecil’s tree was even more impressive…”: “Record-Sized Tree ‘Grows’ at Martin Beck,” Brooklyn Eagle, March 23, 1952, page 29.
page 228 “By comparison, commented…”: Ibid.
page 228 “In Lewis’ eyes, that was…”: Lewis, Slings and Arrows, page 224.
page 229 “‘Tell y’what,’ Truman said…”: Ibid., page 223.
page 229 “Back in New York before…”: Paul Bigelow to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 229 “Early on opening night…”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 229 “When the curtain had descended…”: William Goyen to GC, December 13, 1976.
page 230 “‘Out of good impulses…’”: Brooks Atkinson, “First Night at the Theatre,” New York Times, March 28, 1952, page 26.
page 230 “‘Seeing The Grass Harp is like…’”: Walter F. Kerr, “The Theaters,” New York Herald Tribune, March 28, 1952, page 12.
page 230 “Thomson blamed…”: Virgil Thomson to GC, October 27, 1976.
page 230 “Lewis faulted…”: Lewis, Slings and Arrows, pages 222–25.
page 230 “Saint accused…”: Saint Subber to GC, August 12, 1975: Ibid.
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page 231 “‘Well, here we are back in Taormina…’”: TC to Pearl Kazin, June 9, 1952.
page 231 “‘There are two long…’”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, May 21, 1952.
page 231 “‘We could not get Fontana…’”: TC to Donald Windham, May 29, 1952.
page 231 “‘She adores Jack—but is…’”: TC to Gloria Dunphy, December 25, 1952.
page 232 “‘It seems all so much…’”: TC to Donald Windham, August 4, 1952.
page 232 “‘When one of them seizes me…’”: Show of the Month News, March or April 1952, page 3.
page 232 “The actors at the Martin Beck…”: Associated Press report of April 26, 1952; carried in the Kansas City Star, April 27, 1952, under headline, “Gals in for the Colors.”
page 232 “By the time he returned home after Christmas…”: TC to Robert Linscott, September 7, 1952.
page 232 “‘Sometimes I wish…’”: TC to Gloria Dunphy, December 25, 1952.
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