Selected Writings Of Truman Capote
Truman Capote (Flat Signed)
Introduction by Mark Schorer


Description: New York: Random House, 1963, First Edition, Fourth Printing (reflected in the number line), 460 pages; flat signed by Capote on the First Free Endpaper above a later gift inscription. Introduction by Mark Schorer. An important mid-career retrospective anthology with both short fiction and nonfiction. 

Breakfast at Tiffany's' narrator recalls his early days in New York City, when he makes the acquaintance of his remarkable neighbor, Holly Golightly, who is one of Capote's best-known creations. Capote himself acknowledged that Golightly was the favorite of his characters. The novella's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of my generation," adding that he "would not have changed two words in Breakfast at Tiffany's".

Condition: Near Fine clean, tight and bright cloth-bound hardcover with a bold gift inscription under the Author's signature in a Very Good Dust Jacket with sun-discoloration to the spine as is common in this edition. 

Additional Information: Truman Garcia Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons, 1924-1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Many of Capote's short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories, and plays.

Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 8 and for the rest of his childhood he honed his writing ability. Capote began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of one story, "Miriam" (1945), attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and resulted in a contract to write the novel Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Mark Schorer (1908 - 1977) was an American writer, critic, and scholar born in Sauk City, Wisconsin. Schorer was called as an expert witness during the 1957 obscenity trial over the Allen Ginsberg poem Howl, and testified in defense of the poem. This incident is dramatized in the film Howl (2010), in which Schorer is portrayed by Treat Williams. In addition to his scholarly works, he also co-authored a series of science-fiction and horror stories with writer, publisher and childhood friend (both being natives of Sauk City, Wisconsin) August Derleth. These stories, originally published mainly in Weird Tales magazine during the 1920s and 1930s, were eventually anthologized in Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People (1966)

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