01541cam a2200265 4500 2357466689 TxAuBib 20110117120000.0 050825t20051988||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780786716616 pbk. 0786716614 pbk. (OCoLC)61342896 ZQP ZQP ZQP BAKER BUR KKS VP@ OCLCA OCLCQ BTCTA YDXCP SINLB TxAuBib Clarke, Gerald, 1937- Capote [BOOK] : a biography / Gerald Clarke. 2nd Carroll & Graf ed. New York : Carroll & Graf, 2005. ©1988. 635 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [607]-612) and index. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the author, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this biography follows Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. It also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writer's descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent--but not before he'd hobnob with the likes of Grace Paley and Lee Radziwill, feud outrageously with Gore Vidal and Jacqueline Susann, and stage at New York's Plaza Hotel the sensational Black and White Ball.--From publisher description. 20110117. Capote, Truman 1924-1984. Authors, American 20th century Biography.