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The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center– Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) has more than 300 cancer researchers and sub-specialized cancer physicians spanning 12 of the 15 colleges at Ohio State and is one of only four centers funded by the NCI to conduct both phase I and phase II clinical trials on novel anticancer drugs. Treating more than 10,000 patients annually, the center manages hundreds of cancer clinical trials, and holds three prestigious NCI SPORE grants for the study of leukemia, thyroid cancer and sarcoma. In December 2014, The OSUCCC – James opened a transformational 21 floor, 1.1 million square foot, 306-bed cancer hospital that places cancer care operations in close proximity to the institution's robust research facilities. Working together, clinicians and researchers at the OSUCCC – James are speeding the development and delivery of treatments that target the molecules and markers fueling each person's unique cancer.
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
City of Hope is a comprehensive cancer center and independent biomedical research institution committed to curing cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. Designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the highest recognition bestowed by the National Cancer Institute, City of Hope is also a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and maintains research and treatment protocols that advance care throughout the nation.
Each year, we treat more than 7,500 new patients, including almost 2,000 who came to City of Hope for a second opinion and transferred their care to us. We conduct more than 300 clinical trials, enrolling more than 5,000 patients, including almost 600 enrolled in interventional trials. City of Hope is one of the few institutions with a genomic tumor board. Our institution also participates in the IBM Watson initiative and has joined the NCI-MATCH clinical trial. Founded more than 100 years ago, City of Hope has one of the nation's largest and most successful stem cell transplantation programs, with outcomes that are unparalleled. Our physicians are experts in robotic-assisted urologic surgeries and also use this surgical technology to battle lung cancer, liver cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope is consistently ranked as one of the nation's top cancer hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
University of Virginia Health System Cancer Center
UVA Cancer Center's mission is to reduce the burden of cancer through care for the patients of today, and through research and education for the patients of tomorrow. Approximately 180 cancer researchers are organized around five programs and have more than $50 million in funded research annually. Clinical programs are led by physicians honored as Best Doctors in America® and Newsweek's Top Cancer Doctors. Our cancer center is one of the first in the country to formalize a pancreatic cancer program with a high-risk clinic. We have the region's only high-risk breast and ovarian cancer program. UVA established one of the first tumor registries in the world. UVA has been funded since 2001 for the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Cooperative Human Tissue Network. Our researchers and clinicians work diligently to understand why cancer occurs, find innovative ways to treat it and offer the most advanced cancer services in Virginia.
University of Colorado Cancer Center
The University of Colorado Cancer Center (CU Cancer Center), located at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, is Colorado's only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, a distinction recognizing its outstanding contributions to research, clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. CU Cancer Center is a consortium of approximately 400 researchers and physicians at three state universities (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University) and three clinical institutions (University of Colorado Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado and Denver VA Hospital) all working toward one goal: translating science into life.
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center
The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UNM CCC) assures that all New Mexicans have access to world class cancer care and benefit from advances in clinical, transitional and basic cancer research. Our multidisciplinary teams of 116 physicians in every cancer specialty — New Mexico's largest cancer team — work with our nurses, pharmacists and other cancer professionals to develop a specialized treatment plan for each of our 10,000 patients every year. We provide access to more than 160 cancer clinical trials through the New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance, an "exemplary national model for cancer health care delivery." In collaboration with our scientific partners (Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute), our 132 scientists are supported by more than $72 million annually in research funds to develop innovative interventions that include education, prevention, novel therapies and precision medicine.
The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) Cancer Care & Research Community (CCRC) is made up of special people — students, scientists, clinicians, volunteers, and donors — dedicated to giving their energy, talents and unique skills to provide the best care for our patients and to discover new ways to combat this deadly disease. Our mission is to conduct laboratory, clinical, community-based participatory, and epidemiological cancer research and to better understand and reduce cancer health disparities. Our team does this by working to increase the number of highly competent cancer researchers and clinicians at our facilities, promote cancer screenings and healthy lifestyles, and expand minority participation in clinical oncology trials. CCRC has more than 50 affiliated members engaged in Cancer Immuno-biology, Drug Discovery, Clinical, Implementation Science, and Cancer Health Disparities Research.
As New Jersey's only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is dedicated to improving the prevention, detection, treatment, and care of patients with cancer, through the transformation of laboratory discoveries into clinical practice and precision care. Rutgers Cancer Institute delivers advanced comprehensive care to adults and children, including access to clinical trials, and conducts cutting-edge cancer research. The leadership of Rutgers Cancer Institute comprises distinguished researchers and physicians who are internationally recognized in their field. Our basic scientists, clinical researchers, and population scientists meet regularly to exchange information to ensure: that laboratory discoveries are refined and applied to clinical care as quickly as possible; that clinical observations reach laboratory researchers on a continuing basis; and that prevention strategies are interwoven in to all research programs.
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has been leading the fight to make cancer a disease of the past. As one of the original NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States, its mission is to treat and prevent cancer by advancing and integrating education, research, and personalized patient care. For more than 40 years, USC Norris has been revolutionizing cancer research with innovative surgical techniques and novel cancer treatments and is listed as one of the nation's best cancer hospitals in U.S. News & World Report. Discoveries and breakthroughs in cancer biology have led the way to entirely new classes of cancer treatment. USC Norris is at the cutting edge of prevention, detection, and treatment. With a multidisciplinary team of more than 250 dedicated scientists and physicians, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center offers hope for patients with cancer and their families' cancer.
John P. Murtha Cancer Center
The John P. Murtha Cancer Center is the military health care system's center of excellence for cancer research and care. Murtha Cancer Center is a core translational research center of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and has its main clinical site at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and partners with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine to carry out its mission. Murtha Cancer Center serves the cancer needs of 1.2 million active duty service members and 9.1 million health care beneficiaries around the globe. Murtha Cancer Center's main mission is to focus on the readiness needs of the active duty military from the standpoint of cancer prevention, screening, treatment, and rehabilitation back into active duty status. Our research focuses on cancers of particular interest and threat to the active duty population and its younger and diverse demographics. Murtha Cancer Center has additional clinical research sites at several other military medical hospitals, and provides all varieties of complex cancer care as well as clinical trials and research opportunities for our patients. Murtha Cancer Center provides expertise to policymakers in the military health system to inform screening and cancer treatment recommendations across our network. Murtha Cancer Center partners with other governmental, academic, and industry leaders to provide the fullest spectrum of cancer research and care to our active duty, beneficiaries, and veterans.
Huntsman Cancer Institute
The Huntsman Cancer Institute mission is to understand cancer from its beginnings, to use that knowledge in the creation and improvement of cancer treatments, to relieve the suffering of cancer patients, and to provide education about cancer risk, prevention, and care.
Huntsman Cancer Institute is a world leader in the study of cancer genetics and manages the Utah Population Database, the largest genetic database in the world, with more than 16 million records linked to genealogies, health records, and vital statistics. Our researchers discovered genes responsible for breast and ovarian cancer(BRCA1 and BRCA2), colon cancer (APC), head and neck cancers (SDH5), and melanoma (p16). We continually develop new approaches to help patients live longer and better lives. With an average of 200 clinical trials open for enrollment at a given time, Huntsman Cancer Institute offers the latest in cancer treatment to patients, some of whom may have few remaining options. Since 1998, we have provided cancer education and outreach to residents of all 50 states and all continents (except Antarctica), with a particular emphasis on underserved Native Americans in our region.
Located at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Huntsman Cancer Institute is the only National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Intermountain West, serving the largest geographic area in the country.
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Norris Cotton Cancer Center combines advanced cancer research at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth with patient-centered cancer care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and at locations throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. It is one of 45 institutions nationwide that hold the National Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Cancer Center designation, and the only one located in northern New England.
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Located in Atlanta, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University is Georgia's first and only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. For 79 years, Winship has coordinated and directed cancer research, education, and care throughout Emory University and its health care system, Emory Healthcare. Winship is ranked first in Georgia for cancer care and is one of the top 25 cancer programs in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report. More than 15,000 newly diagnosed cancer patients are seen annually by Winship physicians either within Emory Healthcare or within three other Emory-aligned health care systems in Atlanta. Each of Winship's 355 faculty members has a faculty appointment in one of 36 departments within Emory University or in other affiliated institutions. With 250 active clinical trials, Winship researchers are dedicated to taking new cancer treatments from the laboratory to patients, providing cancer patients and their families with innovative options in cancer care.
Oklahoma's only comprehensive academic cancer center, the Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma is a nationally recognized leader in research and patient care. The Stephenson Cancer Center annually ranks among the top cancer centers in the nation for number of patients participating in National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored treatment trials, and it is one of 30 designated lead academic sites in the NCI's National Clinical Trials Network.
The Stephenson Cancer Center is decreasing the burden of cancer in Oklahoma and nationally by supporting innovative laboratory, clinical and populations-based research. Its 250 research members are conducting more than 200 funded cancer research projects at institutions across Oklahoma, supported by nearly $50 million in annual funding from local and national sponsors. To provide patients with the highest standard of care and ensure the best possible outcomes, the cancer center supports 10 multidisciplinary clinical programs that bring together physician specialists from medical, surgical, and radiation oncology as well as supportive care and clinical research staff.
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
The University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is an NCI dedicated comprehensive cancer center dedicated to bringing world class research and cancer care to Iowa, the Midwest and beyond. Located in Iowa City, Holden is a matrix center than spans the university coordinating all cancer-related research, education and patient care by faculty from 41 departments and six colleges, as well as UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Stead Family Children's Hospital. Holden offers more than 300 active cancer clinical trials and holds two NCI SPORE grants for the study of lymphoma and neuroendocrine cancers. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has appeared in U.S. News & World Report as one of the "Best Hospitals in America" since it began in 1990 with cancer care ranked among the best repeatedly in a number of specialties.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, based in Buffalo, NY, has led the battle against cancer for over a century with the combined strength of its basic and translational research, multidisciplinary oncology teams, robust cancer prevention and population sciences investigations, educational programs and compassionate team. Founded in 1898, Roswell Park is the only New York state facility outside of New York City to hold the National Cancer Institute designation of comprehensive cancer center, and has been credited with establishing the model for today's multidisciplinary approach to cancer care. As a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Roswell Park helps set international standards in cancer care. A seamless interface of scientific inquiry and clinical application — evidenced by an aggressive clinical trials program that includes one of the first clinical research centers in the nation to focus specifically on the development of new cancer treatments — affords patients access to promising breakthroughs in cancer diagnostics, technologies and therapies. Through its innovative research in areas like genetics/genomics, cell biology and immunotherapy, Roswell Park is driving the development of new, personalized treatments to improve cancer care both now and for future generations. Learn more at RoswellPark.org.
Markey Cancer Center
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has provided state-of-the-art cancer care for more than 20 years, and is the only cancer center in Kentucky designated by the National Cancer Institute. In August 2017, Markey was named as one of the Top 50 Cancer Centers in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The clinical programs and services of the UK Markey Cancer Center are integrated with the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. Markey's cancer specialty teams work together with UK Hospital departments and divisions to provide primary patient care and support services as well as advanced specialty care with applicable clinical trials. Patients seen at Markey have access to more than 100 nationally sponsored clinical studies for different types of cancer. Markey researchers and clinicians are dedicated to taking new cancer treatments from the laboratory to patients and improving the health of all Kentuckians.
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center is one of the leading academic cancer research centers in the United States. It is Indiana's only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center that provides patient care and is one of only 70 in the nation. The NCI designation recognizes that our collaborative research programs meet the NCI's rigorous criteria for world-class, state-of-the-art programs in multidisciplinary cancer research that reaches all 92 counties in Indiana. It also means that the scientific discoveries made by researchers at the IU Simon Cancer Center benefit patients close to home throughout the state. Our researchers have made protocol-defining discoveries that have changed the way doctors treat testicular cancer, breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, genitourinary cancer, leukemia, multiple myeloma, thymoma and thymic carcinomas, and thoracic cancer. Our researchers and physicians are dedicated to eliminating cancer's burden in Indiana and beyond.
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Max Kaus was born in Berlin on March 11, 1981. He attended the School for Crafts and the Applied and Decorative Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1913 he moved into his first studio, and a travel grant brought him to Paris in 1914. At the onset of World War I, however, he was forced to return home, where he volunteered as an ambulance driver and medical orderly in 1916; fortuitously, it was this volunteering that brought him in contact with several inspirational artists, including Erich Heckel, Anton Kerschbaumer, and Otto Herbig. It was at this time he began to focus on printmaking, namely lithography and woodcuts. After the war he supported himself by accepting commissions for decorative painting.
Kaus's first one-man show was at the Ferdinand Möller Gallery in 1919; after meeting Otto Mueller and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff at the "Free Secession" in 1920, he became a part of several artist's groups who furthered study of Expressionism in Berlin, but by the end of the 1920s he returned to the more classical roots of his youth and took a position as a teacher at the Master School for the Applied and Decorative Arts, teaching landscape painting and figurative drawing. In 1927 he was awarded the Albrecht Dürer Prize by the city of Nuremburg.
During the 1930's, Kaus traveled throughout Europe to study, and took a position a an art teacher the United States School in Berlin, but was increasingly exposed to persecution by the National Socialists. In 1937 his works were removed from museums and in 1938 he was forced to give up teaching until after the end of the war.
1949 saw his promotion to full professor—and, eventually, Deputy Director— at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Berlin. He continued to teach and create art well into his late life; he died in Berlin in 1977.


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Appeal for witnesses following fatal collision in Newport
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Officers investigating a fatal collision on Whippingham Road in Newport this afternoon 11 January appealing for any witnesses, or anyone with information, to come forward.
Police were called just after 1.10pm following a serious collision involving a silver Honda Civic and a silver Toyota Proace van.
The occupants of the Civic, two men in their 20s from Cowes, were sadly pronounced dead at the scene. Their families have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.
The driver of the Toyota, a man in his 40s from Newport, was taken to St. Mary's Hospital with minor injuries.
The road was closed, and diversions were put in place, while emergency services dealt with the incident – and will re-open shortly.
Senior Investigating Officer, Police Sergeant Jamie Barron, said: "This is a tragic incident in which two young men have sadly lost their lives. An investigation is already underway in order to establish the exact circumstances leading up to the incident and our enquiries remain ongoing at this time.
"We'd like to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time and who may have witnessed the collision or the moments leading up to it. Did you see what happened? Do you have dash cam footage showing the collision or the moments beforehand?
"Thank you to local residents for their patience and co-operation as we dealt with this incident – having closed a number of roads for several hours surrounding the scene in order to carry out our enquires.
"Any information you might have – no matter how small or insignificant you believe it to be – could really assist our investigation and help us to understand the final moments before this tragedy. We would urge anyone with information to please contact us on 101 quoting Operation Hostel or reference number 44220012949.
"Alternatively, you can submit information via the following link: https://www.hampshire.police.uk/tua/tell-us-about/cor/tell-us-about-existing-case-report/".
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Truman García Capote (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels, and plays are recognized literary classics. He is best known for In Cold Blood (1965) and the novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958). Capote, especially in his groundbreaking work, In Cold Blood, was one of the early pioneers of a distinctly modern novelistic subgenre, the journalistic novel that attempts to present the narrative in a hyper-real verisimilitude that is passed off as "reality." Capote helped to create the "mythology" of the genre, namely that of an artless presentation, when he announced that "every word is true," as if to suggest that his novel was purely an "eye-witness" account, and the effect of the story was not the result of a storytellers craft. The emphasis of verisimilitude treats materialistic "surface" phenomena as "reality."
1.1 Other Voices, Other Rooms
1.2 Friendship with Harper Lee
1.3 Breakfast at Tiffany's
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1.6 Later life
2 Capote on film
3 Capote in TV and Film
5 Published and other works
At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories, and screenplays.
Truman Capote, as photographed by Roger Higgins in 1959
Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans, Louisiana, to salesman Archulus "Arch" Persons and 17 year old Lillie Mae Faulk. When he was four, his parents divorced, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where he was raised by his mother's relatives. His aunt, Marie Rudisill, became known as "The Fruitcake Lady" on the Tonight Show, in 2000. As a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before he entered the first grade in school. He was often seen at age five carrying his dictionary and notepad, and he claimed to have written a book when he was nine years old. When he was ten, his short story, "Old Mr. Busybody," won a children's writing contest sponsored by the Mobile Press Register. When he was 11, he began writing seriously in daily three-hour sessions.
In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her second husband, Joseph Capote, who adopted him and renamed him Truman García Capote. In 1935, Capote attended the Trinity School. In 1939, the Capotes moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and Truman attended Greenwich High School, where he wrote for both the school's literary journal, The Green Witch, and the school newspaper. Back in New York in 1942, he graduated from the Dwight School, an Upper West Side private school where an award is now given annually in his name.
When he was 17, Capote ended his formal education and began a two-year job at The New Yorker. Years later, he wrote, "Not a very grand job, for all it really involved was sorting cartoons and clipping newspapers. Still, I was fortunate to have it, especially since I was determined never to set a studious foot inside a college classroom. I felt that either one was or wasn't a writer, and no combination of professors could influence the outcome. I still think I was correct, at least in my own case."
Between 1943 and 1946, Capote wrote a continual flow of short fiction, including "A Mink of One's Own," "Miriam," "My Side of the Matter," "Preacher's Legend," "Shut a Final Door," and "The Walls Are Cold." These stories were published in both literary quarterlies and well-known magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, Harper's Magazine, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, and Story. Interviewed in 1957, for the The Paris Review, Capote was asked about his short-story technique, answering:
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.
In 1943, Capote wrote his first novel, Summer Crossing about the summer romance of Fifth Avenue socialite Grady O'Neil with a parking lot attendant. Capote later claimed to have destroyed it, and it was regarded as a lost work. However, it was stolen in 1966, by a housesitter Capote hired to watch his Brooklyn apartment, resurfaced in 2004, and was published by Random House in 2005.
In June 1945, Mademoiselle published his short story, "Miriam," which won an O. Henry Award (Best First-Published Story) in 1946. In the spring of 1946, Capote was accepted at Yaddo, the 400-acre artists and writers colony at Saratoga Springs, New York.
"Miriam" attracted the attention of publisher Bennett Cerf, resulting in a contract with Random House to write a novel. With an advance of $1,500, Capote returned to Monroeville and began Other Voices, Other Rooms, continuing to work on the manuscript in New Orleans, Saratoga Springs and North Carolina, eventually completing it in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Capote described the symbolic tale as "a poetic explosion in highly suppressed emotion." The novel is a semi-autobiographical refraction of Capote's Alabama childhood. Decades later, writing in The Dogs Bark (1973), he looked back:
Other Voices, Other Rooms was an attempt to exorcise demons, an unconscious, altogether intuitive attempt, for I was not aware, except for a few incidents and descriptions, of its being in any serious degree autobiographical. Rereading it now, I find such self-deception unpardonable.
The story focuses on 13 year old Joel Knox following the loss of his mother. Joel is sent from New Orleans to live with his father who abandoned him at the time of his birth. Arriving at Skully's Landing, a vast, decaying mansion in rural Alabama, Joel meets his sullen stepmother Amy, debauched transvestite Randolph and defiant Idabel, a girl who becomes his friend. He also sees a spectral "queer lady" with "fat dribbling curls" watching him from a top window. Despite Joel's queries, the whereabouts of his father remain a mystery. When he finally is allowed to see his father, Joel is stunned to find he is paralyzed and near speechless. He runs away with Idabel but catches pneumonia and eventually returns to the Landing where he is nursed back to health by Randolph. The "queer lady," beckoning from the window, turns out to be Randolph in an old Mardi Gras costume. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988) described the conclusion:
Finally, when he goes to join the queer lady in the window, Joel accepts his destiny, which is to be homosexual, to always hear other voices and live in other rooms. Yet acceptance is not a surrender; it is a liberation. "I am me," he whoops. "I am Joel, we are the same people." So, in a sense, had Truman rejoiced when he made peace with his own identity.
When Other Voices, Other Rooms was published in 1948, it stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks, selling more than 26,000 copies. The promotion and controversy surrounding this novel catapulted Capote to fame. A 1947 Harold Halma photograph, used to promote the book, showed a reclining Capote gazing into the camera. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988), wrote, "The famous photograph: Harold Halma's picture on the dustjacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) caused as much comment and controversy as the prose inside. Truman claimed that the camera had caught him off guard, but in fact he had posed himself and was responsible for both the picture and the publicity." Much of the early attention to Capote centered around different interpretations of this photograph, which was viewed as a suggestive pose by some. According to Clarke, the photo created an "uproar" and gave Capote "not only the literary, but also the public personality he had always wanted." The photo made a huge impression on the 20 year old Andy Warhol, who often talked about the picture and wrote fan letters to Capote. When Warhol moved to New York in 1949, he made numerous attempts to meet Capote, and Warhol's fascination with the author led to his first New York one-man show, Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote at the Hugo Gallery (June 16-July 3, 1952).
Capote photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948
When the picture was reprinted along with reviews in magazines and newspapers, some readers were amused, but others were outraged and offended. The Los Angeles Times reported that Capote looked, "as if he were dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality." The novelist Merle Miller issued a complaint about the photo at a publishing forum, and the humorist Max Shulman satirized it by adopting an identical pose for the dustjacket of his collection, Max Shulman's Large Economy Size (1948). Random House featured the Halma photo in their "This is Truman Capote" ads, and large blowups were displayed in bookstore windows. Walking on Fifth Avenue, Halma overheard two middle-aged women looking at a Capote blowup in the window of a bookstore. When one woman said, "I'm telling you: He's just young," the other woman responded, "And I'm telling you, if he isn't young, he's dangerous!" Capote delighted in retelling this anecdote.
Random House followed the success of Other Voices, Other Rooms with A Tree of Night and Other Stories in 1949. In addition to "Miriam," this collection also includes "Shut a Final Door." First published in The Atlantic Monthly (August, 1947), "Shut a Final Door" won an O. Henry Award (First Prize) in 1948.
After A Tree of Night was published, Capote traveled about Europe, including a two-year sojourn in Sicily. This led to a collection of his European travel essays, Local Color (1950), indicative of his increasing interest in writing nonfiction. In the early 1950s, Capote took on Broadway and films, adapting his 1951 novella, The Grass Harp, into a 1952 play (later a 1971 musical and a 1995 film), followed by the musical, House of Flowers (1954). Capote co-wrote, with John Huston, the screenplay for Huston's film, Beat the Devil (1953). Traveling through the Soviet Union with a touring production of Porgy and Bess, he produced a series of articles for The New Yorker that became his first book-length work of nonfiction, The Muses Are Heard (1956).
Friendship with Harper Lee
Capote was a lifelong friend of his Monroeville, Alabama, neighbor Harper Lee, and he based the character of Idabel in Other Voices, Other Rooms on her. He, in turn, was the inspiration for Dill Harris in her 1960 bestseller, To Kill a Mockingbird. In an interview with Lawrence Grobel, Capote recalled his childhood, "Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Harper Lee's mother and father, lived very near. Harper Lee was my best friend. Did you ever read her book, To Kill a Mockingbird? I'm a character in that book, which takes place in the same small town in Alabama where we both lived."
It was rumored that Capote had written portions of her novel; some said he had "ghostwritten" the entire novel. At least one person—Pearl Kazin Bell, an editor at Harper's—believed the rumor was true. However, Capote would likely have been much more aggressive in claiming credit for the novel's Pulitzer Prize had he been the real author, since he never achieved a Pulitzer for his own work. His persona was far more flamboyant than hers, and their writing styles reflect this difference. A July 9, 1959, letter from Capote to his aunt indicates that Harper Lee did indeed write the entire book herself, and most literary experts accept Lee's authorship.
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories brought together tales of personal loss: "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory." A first edition of this book might sell for between $500 to more than $3000, depending upon condition. For Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's was a turning point, as he explained to Roy Newquist (Counterpoint, 1964):
I think I've had two careers. One was the career of precocity, the young person who published a series of books that were really quite remarkable. I can even read them now and evaluate them favorably, as though they were the work of a stranger... My second career began, I guess it really began with Breakfast at Tiffany's. It involves a different point of view, a different prose style to some degree. Actually, the prose style is an evolvement from one to the other–-a pruning and thinning-out to a more subdued, clearer prose. I don't find it as evocative, in many respects, as the other, or even as original, but it is more difficult to do. But I'm nowhere near reaching what I want to do, where I want to go. Presumably this new book is as close as I'm going to get, at least stylistically.
The "new book," In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences, was inspired by a 300-word article that ran on page 19 of New York Times on Monday, November 16, 1959. The story described the unexplained murder of the Herbert Clutter family in rural Holcomb, Kansas:
Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain
A wealthy wheat farmer, his wife and their two young children were found shot to death today in their home. They had been killed by shotgun blasts at close range after being bound and gagged. The father, 48-year-old Herbert W. Clutter, was found in the basement with his son, Kenyon, 15. His wife Bonnie, 45, and a daughter, Nancy, 16, were in their beds. There were no signs of a struggle and nothing had been stolen. The telephone lines had been cut. "This is apparently the case of a psychopathic killer," Sheriff Earl Robinson said. Mr. Clutter was founder of The Kansas Wheat Growers Association. In 1954, President Eisenhower appointed him to the Federal Farm Credit Board, but he never lived in Washington… The Clutter farm and ranch cover almost 1,000 acres in one of the richest wheat areas. Mr. Clutter, his wife and daughter were clad in pajamas. The boy was wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt. The bodies were discovered by two of Nancy's classmates, Susan Kidwell and Nancy Ewalt… Two daughters were away. They are Beverly, a student at Kansas University, and Mrs. Donald G. Jarchow of Mount Carroll, Ill.
Fascinated by this brief news item, Capote traveled with Harper Lee to Holcomb and visited the scene of the massacre. Over the course of the next few years, he became acquainted with everyone involved in the investigation and most of the residents of the small town. Rather than taking notes during interviews, Capote committed conversations to memory and immediately wrote quotes as soon as an interview ended. He claimed his memory retention for verbatim conversations had been tested at 94 percent. Lee lent Capote considerable assistance during his research for In Cold Blood. During the first few months of his investigation, she was able to make inroads into the community by befriending the wives of those Capote wanted to interview.
In Cold Blood was serialized in The New Yorker in 1965, and published in hardcover by Random House in 1966. The "non-fiction novel," as Capote labeled it, brought him literary acclaim and became an international bestseller. A feud between Capote and British arts critic Kenneth Tynan erupted in the pages of The Observer after Tynan's review of In Cold Blood implied that Capote wanted an execution so the book would have an effective ending. Tynan wrote:
We are talking, in the long run, about responsibility; the debt that a writer arguably owes to those who provide him—down to the last autobiographical parentheses—with his subject matter and his livelihood… For the first time an influential writer of the front rank has been placed in a position of privileged intimacy with criminals about to die, and—in my view—done less than he might have to save them. The focus narrows sharply down on priorities: Does the work come first, or does life? An attempt to help (by supplying new psychiatric testimony) might easily have failed: What one misses is any sign that it was ever contemplated.
In Cold Blood brought Capote much praise from the literary community, but there were some who questioned certain events as reported in the book. Writing in Esquire in 1966, Phillip K. Tompkins noted factual discrepancies after he traveled to Kansas and talked to some of the same people interviewed by Capote. In a telephone interview with Tompkins, Mrs. Meier denied that she heard Perry cry and that she held his hand as described by Capote. In Cold Blood indicates that Meier and Perry became close, yet she told Tompkins she spent little time with Perry and did not talk much with him. Tompkins concluded:
Capote has, in short, achieved a work of art. He has told exceedingly well a tale of high terror in his own way. But, despite the brilliance of his self-publicizing efforts, he has made both a tactical and a moral error that will hurt him in the short run. By insisting that "every word" of his book is true he has made himself vulnerable to those readers who are prepared to examine seriously such a sweeping claim.
Capote stood at just over 5'2" (159 cm) and was openly homosexual in a time when it was common among artists, but rarely talked about. One of his first serious lovers was Smith College literature professor Newton Arvin, who won the National Book Award for his Herman Melville biography.
Capote was well known for his distinctive, high-pitched voice and dentalized lisp, his offbeat manner of dress and his fabrications. He claimed to know intimately people he had in fact never met, such as Greta Garbo. He professed to have had numerous liaisons with men thought to be heterosexual, including, he claimed, Errol Flynn. He traveled in eclectic circles, hobnobbing with authors, critics, business tycoons, philanthropists, Hollywood and theatrical celebrities, royalty, and members of high society, both in the U.S. and abroad. Part of his public persona was a long-standing rivalry with writer Gore Vidal. Apart from his favorite authors (Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen), Capote had faint praise for other writers. However, one who did get his favorable endorsement was journalist Lacey Fosburgh, author of Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977).
Black & White Ball
On November 28, 1966, in honor of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Capote hosted a legendary masked ball, called the Black & White Ball, in the Grand Ballroom of New York City's Plaza Hotel. It was considered the social event of not only that season but of many to follow. The New York Times and other publications gave it considerable coverage, and Deborah Davis wrote an entire book about the event, Party of the Century (2006).
Capote dangled the prized invitations for months, snubbing early supporters like Carson McCullers as he determined who was "in" and who was "out." In choosing his guest of honor, Capote eschewed glamorous "Society" like Babe Paley and Fiat heiress Marella Agnelli in favor of Katharine Graham. Actress Candice Bergen was bored at the ball. Capote's elevator man danced the night away with a woman who didn't know his pedigree. Norman Mailer sounded off about Vietnam, and Frank Sinatra danced with his young wife, Mia Farrow.
After the success of In Cold Blood, Capote entrenched himself completely in the world of the jet set, discreetly conducting research (unknown to his friends and benefactors) for his tell-all, Answered Prayers. The book, which had been in the planning stages since 1958, was intended to be the American equivalent of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and a culmination of the "nonfiction novel" format. Initially scheduled for publication in 1968, the novel was eventually delayed, at Capote's insistence, to 1972. Because of the delay, he was forced to return money received for the film rights to 20th Century Fox.
In the late 1960s, he became friendly with Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Radziwill was an aspiring actress and had appeared to deplorable reviews in an engagement of The Philadelphia Story in Chicago. Feeling that the part simply wasn't tailored to her abilities, Capote was commissioned to write the teleplay for a 1967 TV adaptation of the classic Otto Preminger film, Laura, starring Radziwill. The adaptation, and Radziwill's performance in particular, received indifferent reviews and poor ratings; arguably, it was the author's first major professional setback as a writer. Radziwill supplanted the older Babe Paley as Capote's primary female companion in public throughout the better part of the 1970s.
Despite the assertion earlier in life that one "lost an IQ point for every year spent on the West Coast," he purchased a home in Palm Springs and began to use cocaine on a regular basis. This resulted in bitter quarreling with the socially retiring Jack Dunphy (with whom he shared a "open relationship" from 1948 until his death). They were separated during much of the 1970s. In the absence of Dunphy, Capote began to frequent the bathhouse circuit in New York, often seducing working-class, sexually unsure men half his age. The dearth of new material and other failures (including a rejected screenplay for Paramount's 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby) was counteracted by Capote's frequenting of the talk show circuit, where his inebriated, candid appearances became the stuff of cliché.
In 1972, with Lee Radziwill in tow, Capote accompanied the Rolling Stones on their 1972 American Tour as a Rolling Stone correspondent. While managing to take extensive notes for the project and visit old friends from the In Cold Blood days in Kansas City, he feuded with Mick Jagger and ultimately refused to write the article. The magazine eventually recouped its interests by publishing a 1973 interview of the author conducted by Andy Warhol. A collection of earlier works appeared that year, yet the publication date of Answered Prayers was pushed back once more. In 1974, he was commissioned by Katharine Graham to cover a murder trial in the Washington area, but he exaggerated an illness and abandoned the project. In letters dating back as early as 1971, the publisher wrote of concern for Capote, who seemed content to her in his deteriorating and debauched state. Friends were appalled later that year when manipulative John O'Shea, his latest boyfriend, attempted to take total control of Capote's literary and business interests.
By 1975, public demand for Answered Prayers had reached a critical mass, with many speculating that Capote had not even written a single word of the book. He permitted Esquire to publish three long chapters of the unfinished novel throughout 1975 and 1976, slightly surpassing Breakfast at Tiffany's in length if taken as one work. While the first part, "Mojave," was received favorably, "La Cote Basque 1965" and "Unspoiled Monsters" alienated Capote from his established base of middle aged, wealthy female friends, who were fearful that the intimate and often sordid details of their ostensibly glamorous and carefree lifestyles would be exposed to the public. Based upon the dysfunctional personal lives of William S. and Babe Paley, arguably Capote's best friends, the issue featuring "La Cote Basque" sold out immediately upon publication. "Unspoiled Monsters" contained a thinly veiled attack against Tennessee Williams, whose friendship with Capote had already been strained at this juncture.
Capote was further demoralized in 1978 when Radziwill provided testimony on behalf of perpetual nemesis Gore Vidal in a defamation lawsuit stemming from a drunken interview Capote gave Playboy in 1976. In a retaliatory move, Capote appeared on Stanley Siegal's talk show in a talkative, inebriated mood and revealed salacious personal details about Radziwill and her sister. While the public ate up the gossip in spades, resulting in a sizeable ratings increase for the otherwise lowly Siegal program, the nature of the appearance only exacerbated Capote's reputation as a drunken caricature of his former self.
In an ironic twist, Warhol (who had made a point of seeking out Capote when he first arrived in New York) took the author under his wing. He often partied with the author at Studio 54 and gave him steady short feature work — the kind of assignments that Capote thrived upon — for Interview magazine. Out of this creative burst came the short pieces that would form the basis for the bestselling Music for Chameleons (1980). To celebrate this unexpected renaissance, he underwent a face-lift, lost weight and experimented with hair transplants. Nevertheless, Capote was unable to overcome his reliance upon drugs and liquor and had grown bored with New York by the turn of the 1980s.
After the revocation of his driver's license (the result of speeding near his Long Island residence) and a hallucinatory seizure in 1980 that required hospitalization, Capote became fairly reclusive. These hallucinations continued unabated throughout the decade, and scans revealed that his brain mass had perceptibly shrunk. On the rare occasions when he was lucid, he continued to hype Answered Prayers as being nearly complete and was reportedly planning a reprise of the Black and White Ball to have been held either in Los Angeles or a more exotic locale in South America.
Capote died, according to the coroner's report, of "liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication" at the age of 59 on August 25, 1984, in the home of his old friend Joanne Carson, ex-wife of late-night TV host Johnny Carson, on whose program Capote had been a frequent guest. He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, leaving behind his longtime companion, author Jack Dunphy, with whom he had reconciled in the late 1970s. Dunphy died in 1992, and in 1994, both his and Capote's ashes were scattered at Crooked Pond, between Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor on Long Island, close to where the two had maintained a property with individual houses for many years. Capote also maintained the property in Palm Springs, a condominium in Switzerland that was mostly occupied by Dunphy seasonally, and a primary residence at the United Nations Plaza in New York City.
Capote twice won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Capote on film
Capote's childhood experiences are captured in the 1956 memoir "A Christmas Memory," which he adapted for television and narrated. Directed by Frank Perry, it aired on December 21, 1966, on ABC Stage 67, featuring Geraldine Page in an Emmy Award-winning performance. The teleplay was later incorporated into Perry's 1969 anthology film Trilogy (aka Truman Capote's Trilogy), which also includes adaptations of "Miriam" and "Among the Paths to Eden." The TV movie, Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, with Patty Duke and Piper Laurie, was a 1997 remake, directed by Glenn Jordan.
In 1961, Capote's novel Breakfast at Tiffany's about a flamboyant New York party girl named Holly Golightly was filmed by director Blake Edwards, starring Audrey Hepburn in what many consider her defining role, though Capote never approved of the toning down of the story to appeal to mass audiences.
Capote narrated his The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967), a sequel to A Christmas Memory, filmed by Frank Perry in Pike Road, Alabama. Geraldine Page again won an Emmy for her performance in this hour-long program.
In Cold Blood was filmed twice: When Richard Brooks directed In Cold Blood, the 1967 adaptation with Robert Blake and Scott Wilson, he filmed at the actual Clutter house and other Holcomb, Kansas, locations. Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts headed the cast of the 1996, In Cold Blood, miniseries, directed by Jonathan Kaplan.
Neil Simon's 1976 murder mystery spoof, Murder by Death provided Capote's main role as an actor, portraying reclusive millionaire Lionel Twain who invites the world's leading detectives together to a dinner party to have them solve a murder. The performance brought him a Golden Globe nomination (Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture). Early in the film it is alleged that Twain has "no pinkies." In truth, Capote's little fingers were unusually large.
In Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), there is a scene in which Alvy (Allen) and Annie (Diane Keaton) are observing passersby in the park. Alvy comments, "Oh, there goes the winner of the Truman Capote Look-Alike Contest." The passerby is actually Truman Capote (who appeared in the film uncredited).
Other Voices, Other Rooms came to theater screens in 1995, with David Speck in the lead role of Joel Sansom. Reviewing this atmospheric Southern Gothic film in the New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote:
One of the things the movie does best is transport you back in time and into nature. In the early scenes as Joel leaves his aunt's home to travel across the South by rickety bus and horse and carriage, you feel the strangeness, wonder and anxiety of a child abandoning everything that's familiar to go to a place so remote he has to ask directions along the way. The landscape over which he travels is so rich and fertile that you can almost smell the earth and sky. Later on, when Joel tussles with Idabell (Aubrey Dollar), a tomboyish neighbor who becomes his best friend (a character inspired by the author Harper Lee), the movie has a special force and clarity in its evocation of the physical immediacy of being a child playing outdoors.
Capote's short story, "Children on Their Birthdays," another look back at a small-town Alabama childhood, was brought to film by director Mark Medoff in 2002.
Capote in TV and Film
With Love from Truman (1966), a 29-minute documentary by David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, shows a Newsweek reporter interviewing Capote at his beachfront home in Long Island. Capote talks about In Cold Blood, his relationship with the murderers and his coverage of the trial. He is also seen taking Alvin Dewey and his wife around New York City for the first time. Originally titled A Visit with Truman Capote, this film was commissioned by National Educational Television and shown on the NET network.
In 1990, Robert Morse received both a Tony Award and an Emmy for his portrayal of Capote in the one-man show, Tru, seen on the PBS series, American Playhouse in 1992.
Louis Negrin portrayed Capote in 54 (1998). A reference is made to Capote as just having had a face lift, and the song "Knock on Wood" is dedicated to him.
Sam Street is seen briefly as Capote in Isn't She Great? (2000), a biographical comedy-drama about Jacqueline Susann. Michael J. Burg has appeared as Capote in two films, The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000) and The Hoax (2006), about Clifford Irving.
Truman Capote: The Tiny Terror is a documentary that aired April 6, 2004, as part of A&E's A&E Biography series, followed by a 2005 DVD release.
In July 2005, Oni Press published comic book artist and writer Ande Parks' Capote in Kansas: A Drawn Novel, a fictionalized account of Capote and Lee researching In Cold Blood.
Director Bennett Miller made his dramatic feature debut with the biopic Capote (2005). Spanning the years Truman Capote spent researching and writing In Cold Blood, the film depicts Capote's conflict between his compassion for his subjects and self-absorbed obsession with finishing the book. Capote garnered much critical acclaim when it was released (September 30, 2005, in the U.S. and February 24, 2006, in the UK). Dan Futterman's screenplay was based on the book Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke. Capote received five Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance earned him many awards, including a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award and the 2006 Academy Award for Best Actor.
Infamous (2006), which stars Toby Jones as Capote and Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee, is an adaptation of George Plimpton's Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (1997). Writer-director Douglas McGrath offered a contrast of Capote in Kansas with his gossipy adventures amid the New York social set. The film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival in August 2006 was followed by a October 13 theatrical release. Reviewing in The Independent, prior to the premiere, critic David Thomson wrote:
The best new film I've seen this year is about the writer Truman Capote… I have no reason to attack Capote, or diminish it. I thought it was a good picture. But this is better… So get ready for Infamous—unless someone has the wit to find a new title. Understand in advance that the leading arbiters of culture will tell you it's the same thing warmed up, a story you know, a curiosity even. It's none of those. We do not write off this year's Hamlet because we enjoyed last year's. We might listen to Mahler's Ninth tonight and in a few months' time. You do not really know this story in advance, for a very good reason: You have not been moved by it yet. You have been intrigued, entertained—all good things. In Infamous, among other things, you have Gwyneth Paltrow's breakdown and the fact that one of the killers took 30 minutes to die after he had been hanged. People collapse slowly. You will be surprised.
More than 70 film critics wrote favorable reviews of Infamous, but some were not impressed. Jim Emerson, reviewing in The Chicago Sun-Times, wrote:
Infamous never finds its proper tone, which should have been set by the peacock performances of Jones and Stevenson—flaming creatures who are comically flamboyant, self-possessed and just enough over the top to be dazzling. As Capote's fellow author and investigative collaborator Nelle Harper Lee, Sandra Bullock is robotic. When she shifts her eyes at a key moment in a scene, you can almost read the programming code that dictates the maneuver. In the end, Infamous turns out to be the third-best movie built around the murders of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kan., in 1959.
Capote (2005) film soundtrack by Mychael Danna. Reading by Capote.
A Christmas Memory LP. Reading by Capote.
Children on Their Birthdays Columbia Literary Series ML 4761 12" LP. Reading by Capote.
House of Flowers Columbia 10" LP. Reading by Capote.
House of Flowers Broadway production. Saint Subber presents Truman Capote and Harold Arlen's House of Flowers, starring Pearl Bailey. Directed by Peter Brook with musical numbers by Herbert Ross. Columbia 12" LP, Stereo-OS-2320. Electronically reprocessed for stereo.
In Cold Blood (1966) RCA Victor Red Seal monophonic LP, VDM-110. Reading by Capote.
In Cold Blood Random House unabridged on 12 CDs. Read by Scott Brick.
The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967) United Artists LP UAS 6682. Reading by Capote.
Capote in Kansas (2005) Oni Press, Graphic novel about Truman Capote and his time in Kansas researching In Cold Blood.
Published and other works
Type/Notes
approx. 1943 Summer Crossing Novel; posthumously published 2005
1945 Miriam Short story; published in Mademoiselle (magazine)
1948 Other Voices, Other Rooms Novel
1949 A Tree of Night and Other Stories Collection of short stories
1951 The Grass Harp Novel
1952 The Grass Harp Play
1953 Beat the Devil (1953 film) Original screenplay
1954 House of Flowers Broadway musical
1956 The Muses Are Heard Non-fiction
1956 "A Christmas Memory" Short story; published in Mademoiselle (magazine)
1957 "The Duke in His Domain" Portrait of Marlon Brando; published in The New Yorker; Republished in Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (2001)
1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) Novella
1960 The Innocents (film) Screenplay based on Turn of the Screw by Henry James; 1962 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, to Capote and William Archibald for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
1963 Selected Writings of Truman Capote
1964 A short story appeared in Seventeen magazine
1966 In Cold Blood "Non-fiction novel"; Capote's second Edgar Award (1966), for Best Fact Crime book
1968 The Thanksgiving Visitor Novella
1971 The Great Gatsby Screenplay based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, rejected by Paramount Pictures
1973 The Dogs Bark Collection of travel articles and personal sketches
1975 "Mojave" and "La Cote Basque, 1965" Short stories from Answered Prayers; published in Esquire (magazine)
1976 "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCloud" Short stories from Answered Prayers; published in Esquire (magazine)
1980 Music for Chameleons Collection of short fiction and nonfiction
1986 Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel Published posthumously
2005 Summer Crossing Previously lost first novel — excerpt published in the 2005-10-24 issue of The New Yorker
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Garson, Helen S. Truman Capote: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1992. ISBN 0805708510.
Hill, Patti. Truman Capote: The Art of Fiction No. 17. Paris Review 16, Spring-Summer 1957.
Inge, M. Thomas. Truman Capote Conversations. University Press of Mississippi, 1987. ISBN 0-87805-274-7.
Krebs, Albin. Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity. New York Times. (August 28, 1984).
Plimpton, George. 1997. Truman Capote, In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. Doubleday, 1997. ISBN 0385491735.
Walter, Eugene. Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet. Crown. ISBN 0609605941.
All links retrieved March 27, 2020.
Obituary, New York Times, August 26, 1984 (with some striking contradictions to this article about his early years)
Capote (2005), film website
Emanuel Goldman review of Trilogy in The Tech (December 3, 1969)
Gerald Clarke on Capote
Minnesota Public Radio: Public readings of "A Christmas Memory"
Review: The Dogs Bark (1973)
Truman Capote: His Life & Works
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Gov. Bruce Rauner returned to 'Morning Shift' on Friday, March 10, to take questions from listeners.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner continues to deny he had a heavy-handed role in derailing the so-called grand bargain to end the state budget impasse, even as Senate Democrats accuse him of pulling GOP votes off of the deal.
Appearing on WBEZ's Morning Shift on Friday, Rauner said "we should help" senators keep negotiating so they reach his goals of instituting a permanent property tax freeze and changing workers' compensation rules.
"I'm not sure there was any particular vote that was ready or not ready. The negotiations have been very fluid. There have been drafts of bills, changes to bills," Rauner said.
Senate Democrats spent the week in Springfield asking the leaders of state agencies where they plan to make cuts. Rauner's budget proposal had counted on $4.6 billion in savings from the Senate's grand bargain, but those savings are now in question because negotiations have stalled. Democrats have alleged Rauner was not negotiating in good faith. They also claim he changed what he wanted included in the grand bargain at the last minute to get Senate Republicans off the deal.
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On Friday, Rauner responded to Chance's criticism.
"I was hoping he would stand with me and advocate for one of two options to pay for it," Rauner said.
Rauner has suggested two ways to close CPS' budget gap: The city could dip into funds collected in the controversial taxing areas known as tax increment financing districts, or lawmakers could tie the $215 million to legislation addressing the state's underfunded pensions.
Rauner continued his criticism of the American Health Care Act, the plan unveiled by Republicans in the U.S. House to replace President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act.
Without naming specific proposals, Rauner said he and other Republican governors are advocating for their own changes to the ACA. Seven Republican governors recently submitted their own proposal to Congress.
The Associated Press recently reported Rauner's administration had arranged to pay a new deputy governor out of an employee health care account that is more than $4 billion behind on its bills due to the state's budget crisis.
Rauner hired former Comptroller Leslie Munger to work in his administration after voters ousted her in the November election.
Tony Arnold covers politics for WBEZ. Follow him and @tonyjarnold.


Flying the flag for Bedfordshire, staff and students at Cranfield University have joined the initiative that will stop 98,700 disposable plastic bottles being used over the next 12 months.
Staff and students pledged to make a number of changes to their everyday behaviour around waste and recycling to help the environment and improve sustainability. This included not to use any plastic bags, bottles or straws.
Professor Jim Harris, Chair of Environmental Technology and students pledging at Cranfield University.
The pledging took place on the university campus, with people taking time out of their day to read recycling information, learn where waste goes and sustainability; all provided by Cawleys Waste Management. It's no surprise busy staff and students were captured by the initiative, with only 9 per cent of all plastic waste in the world being recycled, people want to start doing something about it.
This initiative adopted by Cranfield University is part of a wider campaign, 'Small Action Big Impact', a venture by Cawleys Waste Management, based in Luton. The year-long project aims to encourage businesses and trusts across the south east to all make small changes to their daily lives which, added together, can make a big different to the environment.


The art of listening must be carefully cultivated. An old proverb says that is why God gave us two ears and one mouth. Listening well is a wonderful skill. We appreciate those who give us the time to share our heart when we say to them: "Please, hear me out." Listening actively and attentively is a sign of maturity.
Listening is hard work for the living. It's impossible work for the dead. That's why Jesus is describing a kind of listening born of grace when he says, "The dead will hear the voice of the Son of God." Ears are given to those who are spiritually dead, ears that allow them to hear the gospel—to believe the good news—and live!
When we have experienced new life in Christ, and as we grow in spiritual maturity, we are able, ready, and eager to listen to God. The goal, as our lives are renewed, is that we listen with new intensity and insight.
Everyone who hears Jesus' words lives the abundant life in him.
Hear Jesus now. Be his careful listener. Listen and learn from him. Jesus said, "Whoever belongs to God hears what God says" (John 8:47).
Once again, God, I am speaking to you. Make me quiet so that I listen. After I'm finished speaking, give me silence and patience to listen to you. I know I must hear you to really live. Amen.


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Q: can't find executable cap for gem capistrano Although I bundle install without any issue, and I do have Capistrano in Gemfile:
group :development do
  gem 'capistrano', '3.4.0'
  gem 'capistrano-rails'
  gem 'capistrano-sidekiq'
  gem 'capistrano-rvm'
  gem 'capistrano-passenger', '~> 0.2'
  gem 'capistrano-slackify', require: false
  gem "letter_opener"
  gem 'web-console', '~> 2.0'
end

but, if I try to bundle exec cap deploy I get error:
/Users/samir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/bundler/rubygems_integration.rb:462:in `block in replace_bin_path': can't find executable cap for gem capistrano. capistrano is not currently included in the bundle, perhaps you meant to add it to your Gemfile? (Gem::Exception)
        from /Users/samir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/bundler/rubygems_integration.rb:493:in `block in replace_bin_path'
        from /Users/samir/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/bin/cap:22:in `<main>'
        from /Users/samir/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:24:in `eval'
        from /Users/samir/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:24:in `<main>'

Any idea?

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This statistic displays the regional distribution of UK music royalties revenue collected by PRS for Music from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, revenue from North America reached 55 million British pounds. Revenues from Europe were highest that year.


Projects | Allegiant Gold Ltd.
30.5 metres of 3.24 g/t gold.
The Battle Mountain Gold Trend.
Up to 3 g/t gold in outcrop.
Gold anomaly could be 3.5km long.
Up to 242 g/t Ag in breccia outcrop of fault.
Ag/Au over widths of 30 metres in fault wall.
Two parallel faults under shallow cover.
Allegiant owns a 1% NSR royalty on the project.
Allegiant holds a 1% NSR royalty on the project.
Resource of 721,000 gold equivalent ozs.
Remains open and has significant upside.
Historic resources and additional targets.
District contains a number of copper porphyry deposits.
72 km Ag-Au epithermal veins; 4.8km developed.
Historical deposit averages 320 g/t Ag & 5.1 g/t Au.
dozens of mineralized veins never been drilled.
Several gold anomalies up to 2.45 g/t gold.
6.5 km north of Barrick's Bald Mountain gold mine.
Similar setting to Alligator Ridge and Rain mines.
Sampling has returned up to 15.5 g/t gold.
South of the Tintic and Crypto mining districts.
Sampling has returned up to 85 oz. per tonne Ag.
District produced 4.2 million oz. gold.
District values often exceeded 33 g/t gold.
13 km east of the Kinsley Mine.
2.1 km long anomalous gold zone.
Surface samples up to 0.80 g/t gold.


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Ian Ball, Ben Ottewell, Olly Peacock and Graham Pattison (engineer) created the Final Keep Me Up in 2009. They decided to record an album using only iPhones in the back lounge of the tour bus from Calais to Köln 2 May 2009. The album exists only in streaming form.
Ben Ottewell released a solo record in 2011 entitled "Shapes & Shadows".


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We have a very good prospective home lined up for Riley in Norfolk, for whenever he can be taken there.
The closer the better but his new owners are willing to drive 1 hour outside of Norfolk to collect him, possibly a little longer.
I am quite happy for this to be one of those 'bitty' journeys involving a few people and also for overnight stops if required.
This little lad is absolutely desperate for company so any help will be very much appreciated.
Just trying to work out if Nottingham is on route.
we are the lucky people hoping to adopt gorgeous Riley - we live close to Norwich, Norfolk but are more than happy to meet up at any train station (car sick at mo) within an hour or so from there eg, Cambridge, Ely, Peterborough or any other place easily accessible by train.
Please can anyone help get this very special lad closer to us.
If Riley can be got from Sheffield down to me in Newark, I can get him to Ely. My b/f lives near there and I'm there most weekends.
So we need Sheffield to Nottingham then?
I might be able to do Sheffield to Nottingham, depending when it's happening and if O/H's car is free.
If I use my car, could probs do Mansfield to Nottingham or maybe Chesterfield to Nottingham. Don't trust my car on longer journeys.
Sounds like a plan. Will speak to O/H and get back to you.
We were thinking of doing it on Sunday. If Sunday isn't good for you, O/H has said he doesn't mind going all the way to Sheffield.
I will be travelling to near Ely this Saturday and coming back on Sunday so if Riley can be got to me before Saturday I can take him then.. assuming Amanda is available to meet me at Ely on one of those 2 days.
If Riley cannot be got from Sheffield before this weekend, it might be a couple of weeks before I can get him to Ely as I wont be going there the weekend after this one.
So is there anyway the run to notts can take places before Saturday, Amy & Nicola?
If Nicola can get to Chesterfield M1 services one night this week, I can meet her there. Tomorrow night (Tuesday) would be best because I'm finishing work earlier than usual.
Let me know if this is going ahead tomorrow guys, have two bunnies under GA tomorrow so if its early need to arrange collection.
Nicola, have just PM'd a reply.
Friday is OK for me, but I'm at work until 5pm. Is that OK for you Sooz?
Im at work from 6pm but Phil will be home.
Amy, can you keep the bun overnight and are you around on Saturday morning? I will be travelling from Derby to Newark on Saturday morning along the A52 and can collect the bun or meet you somewhere, depending where you are in Nottingham.
I live in Wilford (just off the A52, where it meets the A453). Would be great if you could call in at mine (will PM my address) or alternatively could meet you at a landmark you're familiar with (pub car park or something?).
I'll be picking Riley up from you before 6. Amy and I are planning to meet around 6.30pm.
When's best for me to pick him up? I'm just thinking if we made it late afternoon and then I can avoid getting caught up in traffic coming back across the city.
I dont know exactly what time it will be but I guess it will be sometime around 11 ish.
Amanda..... I will be down in Cambs late afternoon / early evening on Saturday so it may be best to meet you in Ely on Sunday?
Ignore everything I just said..... I should think anytime is fine.
I am coming back from Cheltenham saturday eve - arriving at Ely station at 6.52pm, catching the train back to Norwich at 7.15pm - any chance of meeting up then please? It would make life alot easier for me (even if I have to hang around for a while ?) otherwise i will need to get another taxi back into Norwich to get the train to Ely on the Sunday.
I cant believe this has actually all come together, thank you so much to everyone taking part.
Amanda, expect the adoption forms to be with you within the hour.
Look forward to the adoption forms Sooz.
Adoption forms arrived back today, thanks Amanda.
Nicola what time are you collecting on Friday?
This would mean that the pick up from Nicola at Tibself services on Friday evening would need to happen a bit later than arranged.
Nicola, I will let you know what's happening asap.
I guess this is all sorted now but I have my car back and its all mended now if you need any help with transport.
Riley has his bag packs and is ready to go.
I've PM'd Nicola with final arrangements for this evening.
He's come out of the carrier and is having a look around, bless him.
I'm home, Riley was handed over to Amy.
Not too bad a journey, apart from coming home when someone nearly swerved into me:shock: My heart was in my mouth!!
Michelle is picking him up tomorrow.
Riley is now with me and is having a hop around the lounge before his journey down to Cambs later.
Great, how is he holding up with the travelling?
Typically his cage here has been filled already :rolleyes: as we had to seperate two of the youngsters.
Thanks for the updates Guys :D I hope he behaved himself!
Riley is now at his forever home & settling down in his new pad eating carrot & Kale & loads of hay - if he is stressed at all from the journey, he certainly is hiding it well :lol: bless him - he hasn't stopped eating since he arrived here !!
Ditto to that, he has got about a bit!
Glad he has arrived and settled in well, thanks to everyone who has taken part in Rileys big adventure!
Amanda, if you have any problems please get in touch and of course, I cant wait for pictures!


Seriously, what an unimaginative name for this dish. Sorry. I had about half a red cabbage left over from the Broccoli Slaw that I made the other day and an awful lot of apples, so I figured I try cooking the cabbage. I don't think I've ever cooked cabbage before. And I needed to distract myself for another hour or so while the chicken was still slow cooking.
When it's all brown, then add in your sliced onion and cook for another few minutes. Stir it often!
Add in the peeled and chopped into chunks apple, stir about a bit. Then throw in the cabbage which you've roughly chopped.
Add the balsamic vinegar, cover the saucepan, and cook on a low heat for about an hour. Stir it every once in a while to make sure it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan or anything!
I threw in about a tablespoon of butter at the end of the cooking – cause I like butter. And it was rather nice and made it all shiny.


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