page 312 “‘My Birthday,’ he noted…”: TC’s diaries, September 30, 1958.
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page 313 “In an early version, Truman…”: The early versions of Breakfast at Tiffany’s are in the Capote collection of the Library of Congress.
page 314 “Shortly after it appeared, Doris Lilly…”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, January 7, 1984.
page 314 “Unfortunately, a Manhattan woman…”: Paul Berg, “$800,000 Suit Over a Best Seller,” Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, March 1, 1959, “Pictures,” page 3.
page 314 “‘It’s ridiculous for her to claim…’”: “Golightly at Law,” Time, February 9, 1959, page 90.
page 314 “‘Truman Capote I do not know well…’”: Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, page 465.
page 315 “Mailer had good reason to call him…”: Janet Winn, “Capote, Mailer and Miss Parker,” The New Republic, February 9, 1959, pages 27–28.
page 315 “…he told Cecil that it was ‘wonderful, big…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 12, 1959.
page 315 “‘Your item about Leland and Pam…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, July 15, 1959.
page 315 “In New York, Bennett Cerf told Truman…”: Bennett Cerf to TC, August 3, 1959.
page 316 “‘There was much talk about what is…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, August 24, 1959.
page 316 “‘What possible trouble or disaster…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
page 316 “After finishing forty pages of his Moscow…”: William Shawn to GC, May 31, 1976.
page 317 “‘I like the feeling that something is happening…’”: Phyllis Meras, “Writing Isn’t Therapeutic for Capote,” Providence Sunday Journal, July 19, 1959, page W–14.
page 317 “He was too restless to settle down to fiction…”: Glenway Wescott to GC, January 31, 1976, and February 9, 1976.
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page 318 “The truth, as Henry James…”: James, The Art of the Novel, page 159.
page 318 “‘Everything would seem freshly minted…’”: George Plimpton, “The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel,” New York Times Book Review, January 16, 1966.
page 319 “‘As he originally conceived it…’”: William Shawn to GC, May 31, 1976.
page 319 “‘He said it would be a tremendously…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’… An American Tragedy,” Newsweek, January 24, 1966, page 60.
page 319 “‘Did you read about the murder…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, December 3, 1959.
page 319 “‘I don’t know a soul…’”: Cerf, At Random, page 192.
page 319 “‘He was afraid that there wouldn’t be…’”: Harper Lee to GC, March 2, 1986.
page 321 “‘he was like someone coming off the…’”: Ibid.
page 321 “‘Well… I’d sure hate to tell…’”: Robert Pearman, “Reaction to Capote Book Varies at Scene,” Kansas City Times, January 27, 1966.
page 321 “Soon after arriving, he and Nelle walked into the office…”: Alvin Dewey to GC, October 25–26, 1976.
page 321 “‘Well he could have talked all day…’”: Ibid.
page 322 “‘Nelle walked into the kitchen…’”: Dolores Hope to GC, October 28, 1976.
page 322 “‘It wasn’t like he was interviewing you…’”: Wilma Kidwell to GC, October 26, 1976.
page 323 “At one particularly bleak point, he despaired…”: Harper Lee to GC, March 2, 1986.
page 323 “‘Of course Truman dominated the…’”: Dolores Hope to GC, October 28, 1976.
page 323 “…when his wife, Marie, who had been born…”: Marie and Alvin Dewey, October 25–26, 1976.
page 326 “‘He saw Truman as someone like himself…’”: Donald Cullivan to GC, February 27, 1986.
page 327 “‘I had one of the worst childhoods…’”: Harper Lee to GC, August 10, 1977.
page 327 “‘He was suspicious, like many people…’”: Donald Cullivan to GC, February 27, 1986.
page 327 “Perry was deeply offended by…”: Ibid.
page 328 “‘An extraordinary experience, in many ways the most…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, January 21, 1960.
page 328 “How had he been greeted…”: Glenway Wescott to GC, January 31, 1976.
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page 329 “Indeed, as Dick Avedon…”: Richard Avedon to GC, August 7, 1976.
page 330 “‘It is really too awful…’”: TC to Donald Cullivan, July 15, 1960.
page 331 “‘[It] may take another year or more…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, undated, probably July, 1960.
page 332 “‘Whether it is worth doing…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, October 3, 1960.
page 332 “‘Never thought that I, of all writers…’”: TC to Donald Windham, October 17, 1960.
page 332 “‘Alas, I am rather too much involved…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, November 9, 1960.
page 333 “‘I’ll think 3 times before…’”: TC to Donald Windham, August 12, 1960.
page 333 “‘Every once in a while friends of Truman’s…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, undated, August, 1960.
page 333 “‘It was sometimes embarrassing to hear…’”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diary, May, 1960.
page 333 “It was cold, dark and raining…”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, November 4, 1960.
page 334 “Freud, who learned to enjoy canine…”: Clark, Freud, The Man and the Cause, pages 483–84.
page 334 “‘Last week we found out Bunky…’”: TC to Donald Windham, undated, early January, 1961.
page 334 “‘He did it in the most unbelievable…’”: Jack Clayton to GC, August 30, 1976.
page 334 “‘A beautifully turned film…’”: Paul V. Beckley, “The Innocents,” New York Herald Tribune, December 26, 1961, page 9.
page 334 “‘Oh how glorious it seems…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 10, 1961.
page 335 “‘Today I stood in back of…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, January 22, 1961.
page 335 “‘Is there a pet shop here?…’”: Beaton, The Restless Years, pages 127–28.
page 335 “‘an extraordinary and terrible experience…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 8, 1962.
page 336 “‘Somehow they, it, the whole thing…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 25, 1962.
page 336 “‘Of course they all arrived back…’”: Jack Dunphy to Paul Cadmus, May, 1962.
page 336 “Truman added that the Corsicans…”: TC to Donald Windham, June 3, 1962.
page 336 “‘by a lady-in-waiting in the form of…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, July 26, 1962.
page 336 “Gloria had warned her future Number Four…”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 336 “‘Well, Gloria has come and gone…’”: TC to Marie and Alvin Dewey, August 3, 1962.
page 337 “‘bedded down with my book…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, October 15, 1962.
page 337 “The lunch, in honor of the Queen Mother…”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diary, November, 1962.
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page 339 “‘I have been rising every morning…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 4, 1963.
page 340 “‘I need a rest from my book…’”; TC to Cecil Beaton, February 28, 1963.
page 340 “‘The staple of life is certainly…’”: Daniel Aaron, introduction to Arvin, American Pantheon, intro. page xvii.
page 341 “‘If only I could empty my soul…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 4, 1963.
page 342 “‘Eventually it began to own him…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 341 “‘He spoke the way he wrote…’”: D. D. Ryan to GC, February 23, 1976.
page 342 “‘Well, should I?’”: Harper Lee to GC, August 10, 1977.
page 342 “‘My wife Blanche…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
page 342 “‘I was in London last week�
�’”: TC to Mabel Purcell, December 14, 1962.
page 344 “‘Amigo mio, I have…’”: Perry Smith to TC, June 26, 1963.
page 344 “‘I have your picture with Charlie…’”: Perry Smith to TC, June 30, 1963.
page 344 “‘I like talented personalities…’”: Perry Smith to TC, January 19, 1964.
page 345 “‘This kind of literature is only degenerating…’”: Perry Smith to TC, October 6, 1963.
page 345 “‘P. has another “madon” at me…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, January 1, 1964.
page 345 “‘Forty two months without exercise…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, September 15, 1963.
page 345 “‘I doubt if hell will have me…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, September 8, 1963.
page 345 “‘At times it seems forty years…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, April 5, 1964.
page 346 “‘My hair line, at my forehead…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, September 20, 1964.
page 346 “‘My concern is that the info, you have…’”: Perry Smith to TC, January 29, 1964.
page 346 “‘What is the purpose of the book?’”: Perry Smith to TC, April 12, 1964.
page 346 “In a nine-page letter, Dick…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, January 25, 1964.
page 347 “With his usual thoroughness, he looked up…”: Perry Smith to TC, June 4, 1964.
page 347 “‘My Dear Friend,’ he said…”: Perry Smith to TC, November 24, 1964.
page 347 “‘Well, the fat’s in…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, January 28, 1965.
page 347 “‘April 14 you know is the date…’”: Perry Smith to TC, March 18, 1965.
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page 348 “…in 1962 Newsweek had even run a…”: “Romance with Reality,” Newsweek, February 5, 1962, page 85.
page 349 “‘The house is divine…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, undated, probably July, 1963.
page 349 “‘I am in a really appalling state…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, September 17, 1963.
page 349 “To Cecil’s gratification, Truman heartily endorsed…”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, November, 1963.
page 350 “‘I had so much to say & discuss…’”: Perry Smith to TC, November 24, 1963.
page 350 “He took Donald Windham…”: Windham, Footnote to a Friendship, pages 71–72.
page 350 “‘I really have been feeling very low…’”: TC to Marie and Alvin Dewey, January 18, 1964.
page 350 “‘Go on with your work…’”: Jack Dunphy to TC, January 20, 1964.
page 350 “‘No, I want to be at least…’”: Jack Dunphy to TC, January 25, 1964.
page 351 “The Deweys, Sandy noted in his diary…”: These references are from Sandy Campbell’s unpublished diaries, which he very kindly allowed me to see.
page 352 “‘That you really liked my book…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, November 22, 1964.
page 352 “Newsweek, which sent a reporter…”: “The Fabulist,” Newsweek, December 28, 1964, pages 54–55.
page 352 “‘It wasn’t a question of my liking…’”: Jane Howard, “How the ‘Smart Rascal’ Brought It Off,” Life, January 7, 1966, page 72.
page 352 “‘As you may have heard…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, January 21, 1965.
page 352 “‘I’m finishing the last pages…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, January 27, 1965.
page 353 “‘Hope this doesn’t sound insane…’”: TC to Sandy Campbell, February 2, 1965.
page 353 “‘And I thought: yes, and I hope…’”: TC to Marie and Alvin Dewey, February 9, 1965.
page 353 “‘He was incredibly tense and unable to really talk…’”: Joe Fox to GC, January 20, 1976.
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page 355 “‘Perry and Dick were executed…’”: TC to Donald Cullivan, April 17, 1965.
page 355 “‘Bless Jesus,’ he exclaimed…”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 16, 1965.
page 357 “Only a writer ‘completely in control…’”: George Plimpton, “The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel,” New York Times Book Review, January 16, 1966, page 2.
page 357 “‘Journalism,’ he said, ‘always moves along on a…’”: Gloria Steinem, “A Visit with Truman Capote,” Glamour, April, 1966.
page 357 “‘An author in his book…’”: Flaubert, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, page 173.
page 357 “‘I built an oak and…’”: Granville Hicks, “The Story of an American Tragedy,” Saturday Review, January 22, 1966, page 37.
page 358 “‘immaculately factual,’ Truman publicly boasted…”: George Plimpton, op. cit.
page 358 “‘One doesn’t spend…’”: Ibid.
page 358 “A man from the Kansas City Times…”: Robert Pearman, “Reaction to Capote Book Varies at Scene,” op. cit.
page 358 “…he described Holcomb ‘as a broken-down place…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’…”: Newsweek, op cit., page 61.
page 358 “…Truman did give way to a few small…”: Alvin Dewey and Wilma Kidwell to GC, October 26, 1976.
page 360 “…the four issues broke the magazine’s record…”: “The Country Below the Surface,” Time, January 21, 1966, page 83.
page 360 “…and crowds waiting at a pier…”: Johnson, Charles Dickens, page 304.
page 360 “‘They evidently didn’t…’”: Dodge City Globe; quoted in Books, November, 1965, page 12.
page 360 “‘Drug stores say…’”: “New Yorker Demand Hits City; Magazine Doesn’t.” Garden City Telegram, September 29, 1965.
page 361 “‘It’s tremendous,’ said Harold Nye…”: Harold Nye to TC, September 29, 1965.
page 361 “Leo Lerman grumbled…”: Leo Lerman to TC, October 10, 1965.
page 361 “…Truman’s Greenwich High School…”: Catherine Wood to TC, September 30, 1965.
page 361 “‘I suppose you will have imitators…’”: Catherine Wood to TC, October 19, 1965.
page 361 “‘I would never have believed…’”: James Merrill to TC, November 10, 1965.
page 361 “Anita Loos adjudged…”: Anita Loos to TC, November 16, 1965.
page 361 “Noël Coward, who confessed…”: Noël Coward to TC, December 21, 1965.
page 362 “‘Such a deluge of words…’”: William D. Smith, “Advertising: A Success Money Didn’t Buy,” New York Times, February 20, 1966.
page 362 “By a peculiar stroke of luck…”: Louis Sobel and Jack O’Brian, “Otto Preminger Bopped: O’Brian-Sobel Are There,” New York Journal-American, January 8, 1966.
page 362 “‘L’Affaire “21,”’ as one newspaper…”: New York Journal-American, January 9, 1966.
page 363 “‘I would like to take…’”: William D. Smith, op. cit.
page 363 “‘I’m mad about the new Capote…’”: “Capote Story of Kansas Murders ‘Upgrades’ Publishing Industry,” Books, November, 1965, page 1.
page 363 “‘A boy has to hustle his book…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’…”: Newsweek, op. cit., page 63.
page 363 “‘A Book in a New Form…’”: Harry Gilroy, “A Book in a New Form Earns $2-Million for Truman Capote,” New York Times, December 31, 1965.
page 363 “‘When you average it out…’”: Ibid.
page 363 “‘In Cold Blood is a masterpiece…’”: Conrad Knickerbocker, “One Night on a Kansas Farm,” New York Times Book Review, January 16, 1966.
page 364 “He had recorded ‘this American tragedy…’”: Maurice Dolbier, “In-Depth Report on Brutal Crime in Rural Setting,” New York Herald Tribune, January 14, 1966.
page 364 “Rebecca West, who had produced…”: Rebecca West, “A Grave and Reverend Book,” Harper’s, February, 1966, page 108.
page 364 “Writing in The New York Review…”: F. W. Dupee, “Truman Capote’s Score,” The New York Review of Books, February 3, 1966, page 3.
page 364 “‘It is ridiculous in judgment…’”: Stanley Kauffmann, “Capote in Kansas,” The New Republic, January 22, 1966, page 19.
page 364 “But his di
atribe was itself…”: “In Hot Blood, Kauffmann-Capote Reaction,” The New Republic, February 5, 1966, pages 36–37.
page 364 “For Truman the congenial atmosphere was ruined…”: Articles reprinted in Tynan, Tynan Right and Left.
page 365 “Jimmy Breslin, the street-smart columnist…”: “Jimmy Breslin, In Cold Blood,” New York Herald Tribune, January 19, 1966, page 21.
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page 366 “‘I’ve gotten rid of the boy…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’… An American Tragedy,” Newsweek, op. cit., pages 62–63.
page 367 “…in what a fashion columnist called ‘the most…’”: Eugenia Sheppard’s column, New York Herald Tribune, October 2, 1965.
page 367 “‘He wanted to be in the thick…’”: Oliver Smith to GC, December 18, 1985.
page 367 “…walking into it, he wrote in…”: “Truman Capote Describes His…,” House Beautiful, April, 1969, page 94.
page 368 “‘Garden City Opens Arms…’”: Elvira Valenzuela, “Garden City Opens Arms to Capote,” Wichita Eagle, April 23, 1966.
page 368 “‘His light and somewhat nasal…’”: Harry Gilroy, “Truman Capote Wins Applause as Reader in Town Hall Session,” New York Times, May 6, 1966, page 53.
page 368 “‘In the eye of the daily…’”: Virginia Sheward, “Capote Reading Capote: Poignant Evening,” Newsday, May 6, 1966.
page 368 “‘It was a very moving moment…’”: Ibid.
page 369 “‘Have not had a genuine holiday…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 20, 1966.
page 369 “‘Serious writers aren’t supposed to make…’”: “People,” Time, August 5, 1966, page 34.
page 369 “‘I think it was something a little boy…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
page 370 “‘Truman,’ she said, ‘I haven’t…’”: Eleanor Friede to GC, October 1, 1975.
page 371 “‘I don’t know whether or not I should invite…’”: Ibid.
page 371 “Leo Lerman joked that ‘the guest book reads…’”: “Modern Living,” Time, December 9, 1966, page 88.
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