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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Party of the Century by Deborah Davis Wiley £16.99, pp260 Truman Capote was always a man on the make: Gore Vidal observed, not altogether unfairly, that, for him, dying had been a good career move.

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 ...

Monroeville, Ala.? 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 ...

The collection, while apparently containing no riveting new material on his life and times, is a coup for the town that was spun into memorable works by Capote and Lee, his childhood friend and ...