Chronicler of crime, creator of a charismatic call girl, confidant and court jester to high society — and a pioneer in creating the chosen family: These were all sides to Truman Capote, and they’re ...

In a clip from a Dick Cavett interview, Truman Capote jokingly describes “Answered Prayers” as his posthumous novel: “Because either I’m going to kill it, or it’s going to kill me.” Neither survives.

Truman Capote held a masquerade ball on November 28, 1966, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.Bettmann/Getty Images In November 1966, Truman Capote held a masquerade ball at New York's Plaza Hotel.

"I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict, I'm a homosexual, I'm a genius," was the way author Truman Capote described himself. But vivid characterizations mentioned by others in the new documentary, The ...

Truman Capote died on Aug. 25, 1984, which is portrayed on FX's 'Feud: Capote vs. The Swans' Kelsie Gibson is the Senior News Editor of Society and Culture at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

“The Capote Tapes” is similar to the recent documentary “Billie,” in that it makes use of extensive audio recordings with people who knew the film’s subject — in this case the tapes that George ...

In November 1975, Truman Capote published “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a chapter from a novel he was writing called “Answered Prayers.” The book, acquired by Random House nine years earlier, was to be ...

When a biography of Truman Capote was published in 1997, a review that ran in the Denver Post distilled his singular place in pop culture to its essence: “The uneducated arriviste from Monroeville, ...

The $30,000 prize is administered by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop on behalf of the estate of Truman Capote and is the largest annual cash prize for English-language literary criticism, according to the ...