The film Capote is based on Gerald Clarke's biography. Clarke was on the set as Truman Capote played a "Capote type" in Murder by Death. He says Philip Seymour Hoffman is a much better Capote on ...

Leading independent eBook publisher RosettaBooks has announced the first-time digital release of Gerald Clarke's 1988 biography of Truman Capote. Truman Capote achieved the heights of literary success ...

Everyone, it seems, had something to say about Truman Capote. Tennessee Williams wrote a friend, “I think you judge Truman a bit too charitably when you call him a child. He is more like a sweetly ...

Capote: Drama. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Clifton Collins Jr. Directed by Bennett Miller. (R. 115 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Months in advance, the notion of Philip ...

The writer and 1970s talk-show fixture Truman Capote is profiled on a new "Biography" (8 p.m., A&E). Abandoned by his parents as a child, Capote craved and received attention his entire life. Harper ...

Now! This very minute." Many of Capote's letters were published in "Too Brief a Treat," a collection edited by Gerald Clarke. Clarke, who wrote a 1988 Capote biography, notes that Capote's letters can ...

Some rare family photos and a collection of Truman Capote’s letters to his favorite aunt in Alabama — on topics ranging from Harper Lee to Tallulah Bankhead to his longing for down-home butter beans — ...

Too many film biographies rely on the mimetic skill and charisma of the actor in charge, as did “Ray” last year, thanks to Jamie Foxx. The Ray Charles biopic was a limited sort of achievement, a case ...