Capote (93 page)

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Robert Morley.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

Nance, William L.
The Worlds of Truman Capote.
New York: Stein and Day, 1970.

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Counterpoint.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.

Nicolson, Nigel, ed.
Harold Nicolson, The Later Years, 1945–1962.
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Rader, Dotson.
Tennessee: Cry of the Heart.
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Reed, Kenneth T.
Truman Capote.
Boston: Twayne, 1981.

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The Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem, 1951–1961.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983.

Ross, Lillian.
Reporting.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964.

Rudisill, Marie, with James C. Simmons.
Truman Capote: The Story of His Bizarre and Exotic Boyhood by an Aunt Who Helped Raise Him.
New York: Morrow, 1983.

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Stanton, Robert J.
Truman Capote, A Primary and Secondary Bibliography.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980.

—– and Gore Vidal, eds.
Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal.
Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, 1980.

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Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas.
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—–.
Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940–1965.
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Windham, Donald.
Lost Friendships, A Memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Others.
New York: Morrow, 1987.

—–.
Footnote to a Friendship.
Privately printed, 1983.

Wishart, Michael.
High Diver.
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Woolf, Virginia.
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1
Paley denied that the rabbi’s visits were arranged behind his back and in fact claimed that he had set them up through the Jewish Theological Seminary.

2
Paley denied that this episode ever took place.

3
Many aphorisms have been falsely attributed to the Spanish saint, and this is apparently one of them. She did express similar sentiments, however, and Truman probably assumed that a paraphrase was a direct quotation.

4
Mailer had good reason to call him a ballsy little guy. When he wrote that appraisal, he was still bruised from a television encounter with Truman in the winter of 1959. They had appeared, together with Dorothy Parker, on David Susskind’s program
Open End
, to talk about writers and writing. The Beat Generation came under review. Mailer defended it; Truman attacked it. “None of these people have anything interesting to say,” Truman declared, “and none of them can write, not even Mr. [Jack] Kerouac… [It] isn’t writing at all—it’s typing.” The phrase was to be attached to poor Kerouac for the rest of his life. No one recalled Mailer’s response. Instinctively, Truman had realized that what television audiences remember is not an argument, but the amusing and pithy phrase they can repeat to their friends the next morning.

5
One of Truman’s characters relates how the composer lured the steward onto his living-room couch by claiming he needed advice on storing his wine. Every time Porter made an advance, such as squeezing his leg, the steward coolly named his price for allowing such a liberty. As the advances became bolder, so did the bill. When it reached two thousand dollars, Porter angrily wrote out a check and, quoting the lyrics of one of his most famous songs, said: “Miss Otis regrets she’s unable to lunch today. Now get out.”

6
David Brion Davis’
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
won the Pulitzer Prize; Justin Kaplan’s biography of Mark Twain,
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
, won the National Book Award.

7
Maloff had good reason to regret the day that he became a literary judge. A few weeks later James Michener, one of Truman’s admirers, wrote a letter to
Book World
professing to rebuke Truman for his ill-tempered attack, but in fact taking a second swipe at Maloff: “Granted that Mr. Maloff’s novel was one of the most pathetic offerings in recent years, granted that it was a polished up re-working of some deep-think college essays remembered from Freshman English 3, and granted that Mr. Capote was right in describing the novel as a pompous travesty on popular prototypes, there was still no reason to abuse Mr. Maloff personally. He deserves compassion rather than ridicule.”

8
“Ah woe!… For what woe lacketh here? My children lost, my land, my lord.”

9
Danny was Truman’s private name for him; it was not his real name.

10
Truman’s instinct to leave was correct: the proceedings dragged on for six years. The young defendant was twice convicted and twice sentenced to 594 years in prison.

11
His salary was ten thousand dollars a week plus expenses; by the time he finished, he had earned nearly seventy-nine thousand dollars.

12
He had removed “Mojave,” which he had originally projected as the novel’s second chapter.

13
Truman was not the only man Lee discarded that spring. In early May she had left her fiancé, San Francisco hotelier Newton Cope, standing—quite literally—at the altar, even as the wedding guests were assembling and the champagne was cooling in the ice buckets. Speaking of Cope and another ex-boyfriend, Peter Tufo, she said: “Why, no one would have ever heard of either of them if it hadn’t been for me.”

14
Jim Fosburgh died in April, 1978. Minnie followed in November, leaving Truman some mementos, a painting of a cat and a pair of pottery rabbits, which seemed to indicate that at least one of the three Cushing sisters had forgiven him.

15
He was to receive another fifty thousand dollars when filming began, together with a percentage of possible profits at the box office.

16
Though collections of stories rarely do well,
Music for Chameleons
was a happy exception; it surprised Random House by selling 84,471 copies and remaining on the
New York Times
nonfiction best-seller list for sixteen weeks, from August 31 through December 21, 1980.

17
After Truman died, Tiny offered for sale an awkward and lumpish story, “I Remember Grandpa,” that she said he had written in 1947, the year he was completing
Other Voices.
She submitted no evidence to support her claim that he was the author, however—the manuscript was typed without any notations in his handwriting—and he obviously was not.
Redbook
printed it nonetheless, an Atlanta publisher brought it out as a book, complete with illustrations, and many readers undoubtedly assumed that it was genuine.