Clarke, Gerald        frey50        <br/><br/>
Capote   a biography  
Gerald Clarke 
 - 2nd Carroll & Graf ed. 
 - New York   Carroll & Graf Publishers  2005, c1988. 
 - 635 p., [32 ] p. of plates :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0786716614 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>9780786716616 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Capote, Truman 1924-1984 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authors, American Biography --20th century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9 Cla   14