page 371 “Jerome Robbins, the choreographer…”: Gloria Steinem, “The Party,” Vogue, January, 1967, page 50.
page 372 “‘Now, honey,’ he told her…’”: Katharine Graham to GC, October 30, 1985.
page 372 “‘Truman wouldn’t give them to me all…’”: Ibid.
page 373 “She was vacationing on Cape Cod…”: Ibid.
page 373 “‘I’ve never seen women putting…’”: Eugenia Sheppard, “Capote Has a Hot Idea,” New York World-Telegram, October 18, 1966.
page 374 “But he did not send one to his aunt…”: Marie Rudisill to GC, June 27, 1982.
page 374 “‘I feel like I fell into…’”: “Modern Living,” Time, December 9, 1966, page 88.
page 374 “‘People were really carrying on…’”: Diana Trilling to GC.
page 374 “Hearing the commotion from her house in Nyack…”: Jordan Massee to GC, February 16, 1977.
page 375 “‘He ordered his friends…’”: Glenway Wescott to GC, February 9, 1976.
page 375 “‘Oh, I like Truman…’”: Glenway Wescott to TC, October 8, 1966.
page 375 “Flanner asked Glenway to drop Truman…”: Janet Flanner to Glenway Wescott, October 14, 1966.
page 375 “‘Piping away like Blake’s little…’”: Glenway Wescott to Janet Flanner, October 20, 1966.
page 376 “‘This city’s normally…’”: Leroy Aarons, “Capote Is Cold Blooded to the Uninvited Masses,” Washington Post, November 25, 1966.
page 376 “When Herb Caen…”: Herb Caen, “A Supertruman Effort,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 1966.
page 376 “‘The ladies have killed me…’”: Enid Nemy, “…And Before It All Started,” New York Times, November 29, 1966.
page 376 “‘I think I’ve lost my mind…’”: Ibid.
page 376 “Arriving that afternoon, Kay Graham…”: Katharine Graham to GC, October 30, 1985.
page 377 “As the Caens were leaving…”: Herb Caen, “A Supertruman Effort,” op. cit.
page 377 “…it appeared that Pamela Hayward might have been right…”: “Modern Living,” Time, December 9, 1966, page 88.
page 378 “‘It’s too early to tell how…’”: Charlotte Curtis, “Capote’s Black and White Ball: The Most Exquisite of Spectator Sports,” New York Times, November 29, 1966, page 53.
page 378 “‘It was formidable vraiment…’”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, February 9, 1967.
page 379 “Pete Hamill wrote an outraged column…”: Pete Hamill, “The Party,” New York Post, November 29, 1966.
page 379 “A soldier in an Army training camp…”: Private Charles Rosner, “Viewed from the Barracks,” Time, December 23, 1966, page 12.
page 379 “‘So Truman Capote had a blast…’”: Richard Waterman, “His Turn in the Barrel,” Time, January 6, 1967.
page 379 “A few days later Russell Baker…”: Russell Baker, “Observer: Truman Capote’s Gift to Literature,” New York Times, December 8, 1966, page 46.
page 380 “‘He did it. He did it…’”: Suzy Knickerbocker’s column, New York World-Journal-Telegram, November 29, 1966.
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page 381 “‘You might say Truman Capote…’”: Toni Kosover and Ki Hackney, “Capote Does It Again,” Women’s Wear Daily, May 7, 1968.
page 381 “‘his name has a magic ring…’”: Enid Nemy, “Capote Magnetism Fills New ‘House,’” New York Times, January 24, 1968.
page 381 “‘Anything he does…’”: Ibid.
page 381 “‘There’s a little secret to charity…’”: Ibid.
page 382 “‘Somebody has got to tell Truman…’”: Suzy Knickerbocker, “A Grand Party for a Wonderful Cause,” New York Journal-Telegram, April 26, 1967.
page 382 “Writing in Vogue, he said, ‘Ah, the Princess!’”: TC, “Lee, A Fan Letter from Truman Capote,” Vogue, June, 1976, page 113.
page 382 “‘He’s my closest friend…’”: Lee Radziwill to GC, February 6, 1976.
page 382 “‘gold-brown like a glass…’”: TC, “Lee, A Fan Letter,” op. cit.
page 383 “…an exceedingly comfortable life…”: Christine Kirk, “Starring Lee Bouvier,” New York Sunday News, June 18, 1967.
page 383 “‘Understand her marriage is all but finito…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 9, 1962.
page 383 “The irate husband of his longtime lover…”: Stassinopoulos, Maria Callas, page 252.
page 383 “‘Does the ambitious Greek tycoon…’”: Ibid.
page 384 “‘Oh, Jackie, it would be such fun…’”: Ibid.
page 384 “Lee’s reward for bringing them together…”: Martin, A Hero for Our Times, page 533.
page 385 “Many people in Finney County, including the editor…”: Editorials: “Not for the Community,” Garden City Telegram, May 26, 1986.
page 386 “‘When the young actress who was portraying Nancy…’”: “A Nightmare Lived Again,” Life, May 12, 1967, page 104B.
page 386 “‘You’re not happy.’”: Richard Brooks to GC, April 30, 1977.
page 386 “Two weeks later Life…”: “A Nightmare Lived Again,” Life, op. cit.
page 387 “He persuaded Milton Goldman…”: Milton Goldman to GC, June 12, 1986.
page 387 “‘I feel absolutely nothing in common…’”: Jane Howard, “Girls Who Have Everything Are Not Supposed to Do Anything,” Life, July 14, 1967, page 56.
page 388 “…looked like ‘a dog’s lunch…’”: Ibid.
page 388 “‘I have a feeling of now or never…’”: Ibid.
page 388 “…pronounced them ‘very promising…’”: Ibid.
page 388 “When he returned to Manhattan…”: Mark Shivas, “‘Laura’—In Blue Blood,” New York Times, January 14, 1968, page D17.
page 389 “…Susskind discarded Van Druten’s comedy…”: Matt Messina, “News Around the Dials,” New York Daily News, August 18, 1967, page 64.
page 389 “‘I wish we could begin tomorrow…’”: Lee Radziwill to TC, August 19, 1967.
page 389 “‘When I want advice…’”: Ibid.
page 389 “‘I was so happy to get…’”: Lee Radziwill to TC, September 19, 1967.
page 389 “…Susskind insisted that ‘there is something…’”: Mark Shivas, op. cit.
page 389 “…her Laura ‘was reduced to a stunning…’”: Jack Gould, “Cashing In on Crashing Bores,” New York Times, February 4, 1968.
page 389 “‘only slightly less animated…’”: “Specials,” Time, February 2, 1968, page 57.
page 390 “‘When that check fell out…’”: Arch Persons to TC, August 22, 1967.
page 390 “‘He is now the No. 1 writer…’”: Arch Persons to Truman Moore, August 16, 1967.
page 390 “‘Where I was dumb…’”: Arch Persons to TC, August 21, 1967.
page 391 “‘Now in my four years of isolation…’”: Ibid.
page 391 “‘You must of course realize…’”: Arch Persons to TC, August 22, 1967.
page 391 “‘I would like also for you…’”: Ibid.
page 391 “‘It is hardly necessary for me…’”: Arch Persons to TC, August 21, 1967.
page 391 “‘Should we call her Princess…’”: Frank Perry to GC, January 5, 1976.
page 392 “Holding Lee’s hand—as if he were still a child…”: Edith Efron, “When Truman Capote Came Home Again,” TV Guide, November 23, 1968, page 22.
page 392 “‘Marvelous!’” he exclaimed”: Ibid.
page 392 “‘Truman’s relatives just wouldn’t integrate…’”: Eleanor Perry to GC, January 29, 1976.
page 392 “…whom he called ‘that bastard…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
page 392 “‘Don’t you never think…’”: Ibid.
page 392 “‘I think he’s going to marry…’”: Eleanor Perry to GC, January 29, 1976.
page 393 “‘Lee, I hope that you’ll work it out…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
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3 “‘I think you used very poor taste…’”: Ibid.
page 393 “Four years later, after losing…”: Ibid.
page 393 “‘He had that Jew lawyer…’”: Ibid.
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page 397 “‘He never really recovered…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 398 “…or, as Forster phrased it…”: Forster, A Passage to India, page 149.
page 398 “‘…how he longed for praise…’”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, May, 1960.
page 398 “Truman never forgave an insult…”: “Holly and Hemlock: Truman Capote Lists the Books He Will Give His Friends for Christmas,” Washington Post Book World, December 1, 1968, page 2.
page 399 “Maloff had good reason to regret the day…”: “Letters,” Washington Post Book World, January 19, 1969.
page 400 “‘No words can express the secret agony…’”: Priestley, Charles Dickens, page 12.
page 402 “‘When I first knew him…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 402 “‘This phenomenon’ Cecil had once…”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, summer, 1953.
page 402 “‘I secretly feel T. is in a bad state…’”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, April, 1966.
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page 404 “‘If an idea is really haunting you…’”: Show of the Month News, March or April, 1952, page 3.
page 405 “‘I aspire,’ he had jotted in a…”: TC, Music for Chameleons, page 250.
page 406 “He might have said, as Flaubert did…”: “‘Thank You for Making Me Read Tolstoy’s Novel’—The Letters of Flaubert and Turgenev,” New York Times Book Review, October 27, 1985, page 51.
page 406 “…he had sold movie rights…”: A. H. Weiler, “Capote’s ‘Prayers’ Are Answered,” New York Times, February 18, 1968.
page 407 “‘I have a strange new friend…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, fall, 1967.
page 407 “‘Write when you can…’”: Nancy Reagan to TC, mid-November, 1967.
page 407 “At the end of December…”: Windham, Footnote to a Friendship, pages 86–94.
page 407 “‘Whatever changes have been made…’”: Clive Barnes, “Theater: ‘House of Flowers’ Rebuilt,” New York Times, January 29; 1966.
page 407 “The show closed after only fifty-seven…”: “‘House of Flowers’ Closing; ‘Private Lives’ to Be Given,” New York Times, March 14, 1968.
page 407 “…the usually genial Arlen…”: Harold Arlen to GC.
page 408 “…a reporter for West Magazine…”: C. Robert Jennings, “Truman Capote: Hot Shorty with Tall Cool,” Los Angeles Times West Magazine, April 28, 1968, page 10.
page 408 “‘I’m told not to walk…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, April 11, 1968.
page 409 “‘God, what a big lonely country…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, April 24, 1968.
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page 410 “He had carefully studied the record…”: “Opinion, The Assassination According to Capote,” Time, May 10, 1968, page 65.
page 410 “‘The people who ran the thing…’”: Eleanor Perry to GC, January 29, 1976.
page 411 “‘I always felt that he was asking himself…’”: Stein and Plimpton, American Journey, page 199.
page 411 “The last time they met was…”: Ibid., page 168.
page 412 “That did not stop Truman from going…”: Jack Gould, “TV: Truman Capote Defines His Concept of Justice,” New York Times, June 15, 1968.
page 412 “Such a plan of wholesale murder…”: “Theosophy, Cult of the Occult,” Time, June 19, 1968, page 61.
page 412 “‘Mr. Capote is in complete confusion…’”: Ibid..
page 412 “…an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor…”: “Vigilante Juries,” Christian Science Monitor, June 20, 1968.
page 413 “The program was too grim…”: “ABC, Truman Capote Fall Out Over Special,” Broadcasting, November 4, 1968, page 63.
page 413 “‘Well, what were you expecting…’”: “Truman and TV,” Time, November 29, 1968, page 73.
page 413 “…Elton Rule—‘that sun-tanned Uriah Heep…’”: Dwight Whitney, “I Want It on the Air!” TV Guide, July 4, 1970, page 7.
page 413 “‘My primary thing is that…’”: “Truman and TV,” Time, op. cit., page 74.
page 413 “‘I have been working hard…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, undated, second half of 1968.
page 414 “Shortly after Christmas he left for Palm Springs again…”: Joe Faulk to GC, March 9, 1978.
page 414 “He attacked what he called the ‘Jewish Mafia…’”: Jack O’Brian, “Broadway,” New York Daily Column, April 20, 1969.
page 414 “He once more denounced liberal Supreme Court…”: “TV: Dick Cavett Gets Talk Show in Prime Time,” New York Times, May 27, 1969.
page 414 “He struck first, using…”: Earl Wilson, “The Lady Protests,” New York Post, July 24, 1969.
page 415 “‘Words are like chemicals…’”: Nizer, Reflections Without Mirrors; full discussion of Capote-Susann dispute, pages 101–6.
page 415 “‘How pleasant to have a letter…’”: TC to Louis Nizer, May 16, 1973.
page 416 “‘He had become a television personality…’”: Susann, Dolores, page 68.
page 416 “Knocked unconscious, he was…”: William Diefenbach, M.D., to GC, June 19, 1985.
page 417 “‘Jack refuses to go to California…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, undated, end of 1969.
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page 419 “…the first of Truman’s ‘men without faces,’ as Wyatt Cooper…”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 420 “‘He wore what they wear…’”: Charlotte Curtis to GC, April 12, 1976.
page 421 “‘Truman was always nagging on…’”: John Richardson to GC, March 7, 1985.
page 421 “‘He knew he was deceiving himself…’”: Saint Subber to GC, August 18, 1986.
page 422 “‘Here was a man…’”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 422 “‘He was an authentic primitive…””: Charlotte Curtis to GC, April 12, 1976.
page 422 “‘Truman knew what people…’”: Alan Schwartz to GC, March 17, 1983.
page 422 “Half in tears, he shouted…”: Charlotte Curtis to GC, April 12, 1976.
page 423 “Trying, like everyone else…”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
page 423 “Kay Graham was no less aghast”: Katharine Graham to GC, October 30, 1985.
page 423 “‘When he was with this man…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 425 “She was no more impressed…”: Lee Radziwill To GC, February 6, 1976.
page 425 “His ostensible purpose…”: Alan Schwartz, August 18, 1986.
page 426 “Alan telephoned Truman’s Palm Springs lawyer…”: Ibid.
page 427 “Furious at what he labeled…”: “People,” Time, November 2, 1970.
page 427 “…of the following day, October 21…”: “Capote Jailed on Coast,” New York Times, October 22, 1970, page 31.
page 427 “‘I’ve been in thirty or forty jails…’”: “People” Time, op. cit.
page 427 “Leaving Truman in Santa Ana…”: Alan Schwartz, August 18, 1986.
page 427 “‘He was absolutely flattened…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith, September 24, 1975.
page 428 “In his rage, he plotted schemes…”: Joanne Carson to GC, August 2, 1986.
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Rick Brown is the chief source for much of the information in this chapter, although Truman and others corroborated most of his facts. I do not think it necessary to cite each instance in which Brown has provided me with a conversation or background.
page 433 “‘Here was this boring and totally…’”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 435 “He had met Joanne shortly after the…”: Joanne Carson to GC, November 21, 1975.
page 435 “She had been born in C
alifornia…”: Joanne Carson, M.A., Ph.D., “The Search for the ‘Magic Pill,’” book proposal, 1980.
page 436 “To his old friend Carol Marcus…”: Carol Marcus Matthau to GC, September 21, 1986.
page 437 (“Ironically, Fitzgerald, who also labored…”): “Ready or Not, Here Comes Gatsby,” Time, March 18, 1974, page 71.
page 438 “…and, on the whole, was pleased with it, he told Alan Schwartz”: TC to Alan Schwartz, February 9, 1972.
page 438 “But Paramount was not…”: “Ready or Not,” Time, op. cit.
page 438 “‘Well, Truman, this is just…’”: Rick Brown to GC, April 8, 1978.
page 438 “Using the excuse…”: New York Times, March 31, 1972.
page 439 “‘I’m sinking back into my book…’”: TC to Alan Schwartz, February 9, 1972.
page 439 “‘It is totally necessary to develop…’”: Rosemary Kent, “Tru Confessions,” Women’s Wear Daily, May 30, 1972.
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page 440 “‘Of course I basically don’t really want…’”: Andy Warhol, “Sunday with Mr. C.,” Rolling Stone, April 12, 1973, page 36.
page 441 “Beard was to take the pictures…”: Peter Beard to GC, November 13, 1975.
page 441 “…the ‘fantastic T. Capote,’ as Southern labeled him…”: Terry Southern, “The Rolling Stones’ U.S. Tour: Riding the Lapping Tongue,” Saturday Review of the Arts, August 12, 1972, page 26.
page 441 “Its title, ‘It Will Soon Be Here,’ he…”: Andy Warhol, op. cit., page 40.
page 441 “‘Since there was nothing to “find out,”’ he explained…”: Ibid., page 36.
page 442 “…he admitted that if he had been twenty-five years younger…”: Ibid., page 40.
page 442 “But why, he asked, ‘should I do…’”: Ibid., page 37.
page 442 “Theirs was a bond of brothers…”: Robert MacBride to GC, August 31, 1986.
page 442 “‘He seemed sort of uncooked…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
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