Capote a biography

—Truman Capote to Gerald Clarke

Praise for Capote

"In this work of prodigious research gracefully presented, Mr.

Clarke, who had his subject's confidence during the last years, gives Capote what the writer himself, in a last grand, gutsy gesture, declare he wanted: a book in which nothing, nothing at all, was left out. Mr. Clarke, a former senior writer at Time magazine, makes us take a longer look at Capote than I, for one, ever thought I wanted to take, and the result is mesmerizing, a fine-tuned balance—unusual for an author so immersed in his subject—of empathy and dispassion.

The book reads as if it had been written alongside the life, rather than after it, like a car following a train, the driver picking up passengers as they alight, always catching the right people at the right time."
Front page, New York Times Book Review, June