Showing results for "Truman Capote" in Biographies & Memoirs

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the...

Con motivo del centenario, publicamos la biografía coral del inmortal novelista y periodista, adalid del famoseo y azote de la aristocracia mundial:...

One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully than any other modern American journal. Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the '20s and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor, The New Yorker's Profiles have presented readers with a vast and brilliant portrait gallery.

Perry era um sonhador. Teve criação conturbada e violenta, e achava que a vida lhe tinha dado golpes injustos. Dick, considerado o cérebro da dupla, queria apenas arrebatar o dinheiro e desaparecer. Presos e condenados, ambos morreram na forca em 1965. Publicado no mesmo ano da execução dos assassinos, A sangue frio rapidamente se tornou um sucesso de crítica e vendas, rendendo alguns milhões de dólares ao autor.

kontrowersyjna jak sam Capote.

Lawrence Grobel nie zawaha sie przed zadnym pytaniem: o milosc, literature, fascynacje zbrodnia. Rozmowy, które odbywaly sie w ciagu ostatnich dwóch lat zycia pisarza ujawniaja wiele szczególów i anegdot dotyczacych Capote’a, a takze osób z którymi sie stykal: Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Tennessee Williamsa, Elizabeth Taylor i wielu innych.

Abiertamente homosexual, Truman Capote es considerado uno de los narradores más grandes de los Estados Unidos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Autor de la célebre novela "A sangre fría", su figura irreverente y frontal escandalizó al país.

What has received little attention is Capote's last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless skewering of cafe society and the high-class women Capote called his "swans." When excerpts appeared he was immediately blacklisted, ruined socially, labeled a pariah. Capote recoiled - disgraced, depressed, and all but friendless. In Tiny Terror Schultz sheds light on the life and works of Capote and answers the perplexing mystery - why did Capote write a book that would destroy him?

From the true crime author of Murderabilia, a geographic telling of some of the most notorious but lesser-known murders for each US State. Filled with hundreds of entries organized by location, 50 States of Murder is a lively and chilling work of storytelling and an authoritative survey of the...