Capote, Truman 1924-1984

Overview

Works:	1,228 works in 4,582 publications in 8 languages and 120,761 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Christmas stories Case studies Drama Short stories Film adaptations Domestic fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Interviews
Roles:	Lyricist, Author of screenplay, Actor, Bibliographic antecedent, Librettist, Creator, Scenarist, Performer, Narrator, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Contributor, Other, Author of dialog, Dedicatee, Editor, Composer
Classifications:	PS3505.A59, 813.54

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Truman Capote

Publications by Truman Capote

Publications by Truman Capote, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Truman Capote

Capote : a biography by Gerald Clarke ( Book )
Capote by Bennett Miller ( Visual )
Bright book of life: American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer by Alfred Kazin ( Book )
Capote in Kansas a ghost story by Kim Powers ( )
The Thanksgiving visitor by Truman Capote ( Book )

Truman Capote : in which various friends, enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career by George Plimpton ( Book )
Radical innocence, studies in the contemporary American novel by Ihab Habib Hassan ( Book )
Fiction of the forties by Chester E Eisinger ( Book )
Truman Capote by Helen S Garson ( Book )
Truman Capote by Terry Reed ( Book )
Contemporary American literature, 1945-1972; an introduction by Ihab Habib Hassan ( Book )
Truman Capote, enfant terrible by Robert Emmet Long ( )
Portraits and observations : the essays of Truman Capote by Truman Capote ( Book )
Truman Capote's In cold blood ( Visual )
New American Gothic by Irving Malin ( Book )
Violence in recent Southern fiction by Louise Y Gossett ( Book )
Vulnerable people : a view of American fiction since 1945 by Josephine Hendin ( Book )
The world we imagine : selected essays by Mark Schorer ( Book )
The Forties: fiction, poetry, drama by Warren G French ( Book )
The literature of memory : modern writers of the American South by Richard Gray ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Truman Capote

In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote ( Book )
274 editions published between 1940 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 10,396 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recounts the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, and the capture, trial and execution of their murderers

Other voices, other rooms by Truman Capote ( Book )
141 editions published between 1948 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,073 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skully's Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found

Breakfast at Tiffany's : a short novel and three stories by Truman Capote ( Book )
61 editions published between 1956 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,614 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory," in addition to his bestselling novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, the popular story of Holly Golightly--"a cross between Lolita and Auntie Mame" (Time)

Music for chameleons : new writing by Truman Capote ( Book )
76 editions published between 1975 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The celebrated author of In Cold Blood returns to the short story in a collection which shows both continuity with Capote's past concerns and perspectives and new turns in style and approach

A Christmas memory by Truman Capote ( Book )
23 editions published between 1956 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,956 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them

Answered prayers : the unfinished novel by Truman Capote ( Book )
45 editions published between 1986 and 2012 in English and held by 2,434 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Three chapters from a novel left uncompleted upon Capote's death in 1984

The dogs bark; public people and private places by Truman Capote ( Book )
28 editions published between 1951 and 1977 in English and held by 1,881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"...collection of essays, profiles, travel pieces and observations..."

The complete stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote ( Book )
27 editions published between 2004 and 2013 in English and Greek, Modern and held by 1,781 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capote's short fiction-a volume that confirms his status as one of the masters of this form. Among the selections are "A Tree of Night," in which an innocent student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly woman and her deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare that brings back the deepest fears of childhood ... "House of Flowers," the inspiration for a celebrated Broadway musical, which tells of a superstitious prostitute who learns to love in a way no one else can ever understand ... the holiday perennial "A Christmas Memory," famously adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie ... and "The Bargain," Capote's melancholy, never-before-published 1950 story about a suburban housewife's shifting fortunes. From the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote's oeuvre are captured in this first-ever compendium. The Collected Stories of Truman Capote should restore its author to a place above mere celebrity, to the highest levels of American letters

Selected writings by Truman Capote ( Book )
22 editions published between 1959 and 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,766 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sampling of fiction and nonfiction. Fiction selections are drawn from "A tree of night" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Nonfiction works include travel sketches, the complete "The muses are heard", and a profile of Marlon Brando. For other editions, see Author Catalog

In cold blood by Truman Capote ( Recording )
27 editions published between 1965 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recreates the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas and the capture, trial, and execution of their murderers

Summer crossing : a novel by Truman Capote ( Book )
43 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Seventeen-year-old Manhattan socialite Grady McNeil is free to pursue her illicit romance with Clyde Manzer, a parking lot attendant from Brooklyn, when her parents decide to leave her alone for the summer

A Capote reader by Truman Capote ( Book )
28 editions published between 1986 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A selection of Capote's works divided into six parts: short stories, novellas, travel sketches, reportage, portraits, and essays

The grass harp by Truman Capote ( Book )
74 editions published between 1945 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A story of two sisters and their cousin

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote ( Book )
156 editions published between 1941 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
No film better utilizes Audrey Hepburn's flighty charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewelry. George Peppard is her upstairs neighbor, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with Capote's bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a frustrated romantic with a secret past and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole film is Mickey Rooney's demeaning performance as the apartment's Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film has weathered the decades well. Edwards's elegant yet light touch, Axelrod's generous screenplay, and Hepburn's mix of knowing experience and naiveté combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of high society bohemian chic

Beat the devil by John Huston ( Visual )
93 editions published between 1953 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,060 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land believed to be rich with uranium deposits

The muses are heard, an account by Truman Capote ( Book )
29 editions published between 1956 and 1958 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,053 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Conversations with Capote by Lawrence Grobel ( Book )
27 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,036 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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A Christmas memory ; One Christmas ; & The Thanksgiving visitor by Truman Capote ( Book )
11 editions published between 1983 and 2007 in English and held by 980 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory," Miss Sook, Buddy (the narrator), and their dog, Queenie, celebrate the yuletide in a hilariously tipsy state. In the poignant reminiscence "One Christmas," six-year-old Buddy journeys to New Orleans for a reunion with his estranged father that shatters many illusions. And in "The Thanksgiving Visitor," Miss Sook invites the school bully, Odd Henderson - called by Buddy "the meanest human creature in my experience" - to Thanksgiving dinner

Breakfast at Tiffany's and three stories by Truman Capote ( Book )
13 editions published between 1958 and 2012 in English and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory are included with the tale of a fun-loving amoral playgirl in New York City

One Christmas by Truman Capote ( Book )
10 editions published between 1982 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 950 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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