The chief beneficiary of the author's estate was his partner of over 25 years, Jack Dunphy, who received Capote's "real property holdings and a share of a trust fund to be set up later." ...

In the years following Truman Capote's exile by New York's most powerful women, some would speculate it was the author's hunger for gossip which led to his descent. "He'd spill it all out and you ...

Truman Capote went from society darling to social ... "Much ink has been spilled" over the rise and fall of this "brilliant and troubled author of groundbreaking books like 'Breakfast at Tiffany ...

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In 1956, three years before he began writing his bestselling true-crime book “In Cold Blood,” the already famous author Truman Capote wrote a heartwarming short story about his childhood ...