Truman Capote
American novelist and journalist (1924-1984), author of In Cold Blood; a long-running rival and sometime sparring partner of Mailer from their shared 1959 Open End television appearance onward.
Truman Capote, the American novelist and pioneer of the nonfiction novel (In Cold Blood, 1966), was one of Mailer’s durable literary foils. In “The Capote Perplex: An Open Letter from Norman Mailer” (73.22, Rolling Stone) Mailer reprised their shared 1958 Open End television appearance with David Susskind and Dorothy Parker, correcting Capote’s account of the show in a Rolling Stone interview. The two had circled each other since the late 1950s and would continue to.
Stub created during the 1973 ingest.
Related pages
- “The Capote Perplex” (73.22) | 1973