Capote entered a more mature period with Breakfast at Tiffany's, published as a 1958 novella and made into an exceptional 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.īy the mid 1960s, Capote had become an unparalleled social gadfly, and one of the centers of New York society. In 1954, he and Harold Arlen adapted his short story, House of Flowers, to be a Broadway musical. It is a satire, and not a typical Bogart film. With John Huston, he adapted James Helvick's novel into the 1953 film, Beat the Devil starring Humphrey Bogart. The photograph of a reclining Capote on the back of the book, taken by Harold Halma, caused considerable comment.Ĭapote adapted his 1951 novel The Grass Harp to Broadway, but it was not successful. It was unwittingly semi-autobiographical, and debuted at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list. Bennett Cerf had read "Miriam" and paid Capote a $1500 advance for a novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, which Random House published in 1948. In 1948 he won that award's first place for "Shut a Final Door" in the Atlantic Monthly, and third place for "The House of Flowers" in 1951, again in Mademoiselle. Henry award, in the First Published category. In 1945, Mademoiselle purchased his story, "Miriam", and it won an O. At 17, he was hired by The New Yorker to do clipping and sorting, and during his two years there he shopped short stories to various magazines. His mother remarried and when he was 9, and the family moved to New York City. There he became close friends with Harper Lee, later author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Remains: Buried, Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, CAīorn into a New Orleans family that divorced when he was a young child, Truman Persons was raised by relatives in Monroeville, Alabama.
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