TRUMAN CAPOTE was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924. In
1948 his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was published to
international critical acclaim, assuring Capote a place among the
prominent postwar American writers. He won the O. Henry Memorial
Short Story Prize twice and was a member of the National Institute
of Arts and Letters. His other works include Breakfast at
Tiffany’s, The Grass Harp, and the nonfiction masterpiece In Cold
Blood. He died on August 25, 1984.
REYNOLDS PRICE is the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke
University and the distinguished author of more than twenty-five
books of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays. He lives in North
Carolina.
“An abundance of riches. . . . It is not hard at all to open
to any page . . . and be amused, moved, intrigued.” —Newsday
“To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to
his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his
gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy.” —The
New Yorker
“It is a stunning experience to reread this fiction . . . and to
realize how very golden this boy was. . . . We are in the presence
of a tremendous talent, and a fully mature technique as well.
Norman Mailer’s judgment that Capote was the most perfect writer of
their generation—‘he writes the best sentences word for word,
rhythm upon rhythm’—seems true and just.” —The New Criterion
“Capote does some things perfectly than many writers can’t do at
all. . . . He summons the sensory world in its bewildering,
inexhaustible richness.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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