Capote (88 page)
Authors: Gerald Clarke
page 294 “Looking back, he said,
‘The Muses Are Heard
…’”: TC,
The Dogs Bark.
page 294 “In one case, he even invented…”: Nancy Ryan Brien to GC, September 8, 1977.
page 294 “Lyons, who felt most wounded…”: Leonard Lyons,
op. cit.
page 295 “‘wicked, witty and utterly devastating’”: “Sterling North Reviews—Truman Capote in Darkest Russia,”
New York World-Telegram and The Sun
, November 9, 1956.
page 295 “‘He was very keen on keeping his line…’”: Guggenheim,
Out of This Century
, page 348.
page 295 “‘You would adore it…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 21, 1956.
page 296 “‘In some part of his nature he was…’”: Oliver Smith to GC, December 18, 1985.
page 297 “‘We’re very excited,’ he wrote Mary Louise…”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, May 28, 1956.
page 297 “‘Home! And happy to be…’”: TC,
The Dogs Bark
, page 149.
page 297 “‘I love Brooklyn Heights,’ he told…”: Wriston Locklair, “Writer Truman Capote Likes, Adds to Heights ‘Local Color,’”
Brooklyn Heights Press
, October 17, 1957, page 1.
page 298 “Shortly after New Year’s, 1957, Warner Brothers…”: The background on the filming of
Sayonara
and the various disputes between Truman and the moviemakers I found in Joshua Logan’s
Movie Stars, Real People, and Me
, pages 93–121; Truman’s diaries of his Asia journey, which are in the Library of Congress; and Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries.
page 299 “‘It treated human beings like bugs…’”: Logan,
Movie Stars, Real People, and Me
, page 101.
page 299 “‘His assurance is deep-seated…’”: Cecil Beaton’s diaries, undated, January, 1957.
page 301 “‘Bless Jesus I don’t live there…’”: TC’s diaries, January 20, 1957.
page 301 “‘A delightful city of wide avenues…’”: TC’s diaries, January 21–28, 1957.
page 301 “‘Am intrigued,’ he wrote…”:
Ibid.
page 301 “‘Don’t let yourself be left alone with Truman…’”: Logan,
Movie Stars, Real People, and Me
, page 106.
page 302 “‘What an experience,’ Truman wrote…”: TC’s diaries, undated, early February, 1957.
page 302 “In his journal, Truman added his own poignant…”:
Ibid.
page 302 “‘Oh, you were so wrong…’”: Logan,
Movie Stars, Real People, and Me.
page 303 “‘Here, of course, is the inevitable communication…’”: Marlon Brando to TC, May 16, 1957.
page 303 “Walter Winchell said it was…”: “Walter Winchell of New York,”
New York Daily Mirror
, November 24, 1957.
page 303 “‘I’ll kill him!’”: Logan,
Movie Stars, Real People, and Me
, page 120.
page 303 “‘Thank you for writing this piece…’”: William Shawn to TC, October 31, 1957.
page 304 “‘Went to a small boite to see…’”: TC’s diaries, February 12–15, 1957.
page 306 “‘As he had been there before, Truman…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
page 306 “‘I am really three thousand years…’”: Curtis Cate, “Isak Dinesen,”
The Atlantic
, December, 1959, page 152.
page 307 “‘Time has reduced her to…’”: TC with Avedon,
Observations
, page 142.
page 307 “‘He’s a nice chap and…’”: Vickers,
Cecil Beaton
, page 456.
page 307 “‘I read several versions…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 308 “‘I used to get these lists…’”: Alice Morris to GC, January 3, 1976.
page 308 “‘“I’m not going to change…”’”:
Ibid.
page 308 “‘I’m not angry, I’m outraged…’”: “Newsmakers,”
Newsweek
, June 2, 1958, page 44.
page 308 “Truman’s friend Irving Drutman…”: Irving Drutman to GC, February 8, 1978.
page 309 “‘Have written you from many places…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, undated, summer, 1958.
page 309 “To Cecil he added…”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 18, 1958.
page 309 “‘A large novel, my magnum opus’”: TC to Bennett Cerf, September 29, 1958.
page 310 “Many aphorisms have been falsely attributed…”: For guidance on the works of Saint Teresa of Avila, I am indebted to a noted Saint Teresa scholar and translator of her works, Father Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., of the Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Brookline, Massachusetts.
page 310 “A former showgirl and the daughter of…”:
Life
provided a long account of the Woodward killing in its issue of November 14, 1955, beginning page 35. In addition I consulted numerous newspaper stories from the time.
page 310 “‘I said I was happy…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, July 16, 1958.
page 311 “‘Have learned only five Greek words…’”: TC to Donald Windham, August 18, 1958.
page 311 “‘When I reached it,’ Jack told…”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, undated, September, 1958.
page 311 “‘The whole notion opens vistas…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, July 16, 1958.
page 312 “‘My Birthday,’ he noted…”: TC’s diaries, September 30, 1958.
page 313 “In an early version, Truman…”: The early versions of
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
are in the Capote collection of the Library of Congress.
page 314 “Shortly after it appeared, Doris Lilly…”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, January 7, 1984.
page 314 “Unfortunately, a Manhattan woman…”: Paul Berg, “$800,000 Suit Over a Best Seller,”
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
, March 1, 1959, “Pictures,” page 3.
page 314 “‘It’s ridiculous for her to claim…’”: “Golightly at Law,”
Time
, February 9, 1959, page 90.
page 314 “‘Truman Capote I do not know well…’”: Mailer,
Advertisements for Myself
, page 465.
page 315 “Mailer had good reason to call him…”: Janet Winn, “Capote, Mailer and Miss Parker,”
The New Republic
, February 9, 1959, pages 27–28.
page 315 “…he told Cecil that it was ‘wonderful, big…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 12, 1959.
page 315 “‘Your item about Leland and Pam…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, July 15, 1959.
page 315 “In New York, Bennett Cerf told Truman…”: Bennett Cerf to TC, August 3, 1959.
page 316 “‘There was much talk about what is…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, August 24, 1959.
page 316 “‘What possible trouble or disaster…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
page 316 “After finishing forty pages of his Moscow…”: William Shawn to GC, May 31, 1976.
page 317 “‘I like the feeling that something is happening…’”: Phyllis Meras, “Writing Isn’t Therapeutic for Capote,”
Providence Sunday Journal
, July 19, 1959, page W–14.
page 317 “He was too restless to settle down to fiction…”: Glenway Wescott to GC, January 31, 1976, and February 9, 1976.
Much of the background for the
In Cold Blood
chapters was provided by
In Cold Blood
itself.
page 318 “The truth, as Henry James…”: James,
The Art of the Novel
, page 159.
page 318 “‘Everything would seem freshly minted…’”: George Plimpton, “The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel,”
New York Times Book Review
, January 16, 1966.
page 319 “‘As he originally conceived it…’”: William Shawn to GC, May 31, 1976.
page 319 “‘He said it would be a tremendously…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’… An American Tragedy,”
Newsweek
, January 24, 1966, page 60.
page 319 “‘Did you read about the murder…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, December 3, 1959.
page 319 “‘I don’t know a soul…’”: Cerf,
At Random
, page 192.
page 319 “‘He was afraid that there wouldn’t be…’”: Harper Lee to GC, March 2, 1986.
page 321 “‘he was like someone coming off the…’”:
Ibid.
page 321 “‘Well… I’d sure hate to tell…’”: Robert Pearman, “Reaction to Capote Book Varies at Scene,”
Kansas City Times
, January 27, 1966.
page 321 “Soon after arriving, he and Nelle walked into the office…”: Alvin Dewey to GC, October 25–26, 1976.
page 321 “‘Well he could have talked all day…’”:
Ibid.
page 322 “‘Nelle walked into the kitchen…’”: Dolores Hope to GC, October 28, 1976.
page 322 “‘It wasn’t like he was interviewing you…’”: Wilma Kidwell to GC, October 26, 1976.
page 323 “At one particularly bleak point, he despaired…”: Harper Lee to GC, March 2, 1986.
page 323 “‘Of course Truman dominated the…’”: Dolores Hope to GC, October 28, 1976.
page 323 “…when his wife, Marie, who had been born…”: Marie and Alvin Dewey, October 25–26, 1976.
page 326 “‘He saw Truman as someone like himself…’”: Donald Cullivan to GC, February 27, 1986.
page 327 “‘I had one of the worst childhoods…’”: Harper Lee to GC, August 10, 1977.
page 327 “‘He was suspicious, like many people…’”: Donald Cullivan to GC, February 27, 1986.
page 327 “Perry was deeply offended by…”:
Ibid.
page 328 “‘An extraordinary experience, in many ways the most…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, January 21, 1960.
page 328 “How had he been greeted…”: Glenway Wescott to GC, January 31, 1976.
page 329 “Indeed, as Dick Avedon…”: Richard Avedon to GC, August 7, 1976.
page 330 “‘It is really too awful…’”: TC to Donald Cullivan, July 15, 1960.
page 331 “‘[It] may take another year or more…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, undated, probably July, 1960.
page 332 “‘Whether it is worth doing…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, October 3, 1960.
page 332 “‘Never thought that I, of all writers…’”: TC to Donald Windham, October 17, 1960.
page 332 “‘Alas, I am rather too much involved…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, November 9, 1960.
page 333 “‘I’ll think 3 times before…’”: TC to Donald Windham, August 12, 1960.
page 333 “‘Every once in a while friends of Truman’s…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, undated, August, 1960.
page 333 “‘It was sometimes embarrassing to hear…’”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diary, May, 1960.
page 333 “It was cold, dark and raining…”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, November 4, 1960.
page 334 “Freud, who learned to enjoy canine…”: Clark,
Freud, The Man and the Cause
, pages 483–84.
page 334 “‘Last week we found out Bunky…’”: TC to Donald Windham, undated, early January, 1961.
page 334 “‘He did it in the most unbelievable…’”: Jack Clayton to GC, August 30, 1976.
page 334 “‘A beautifully turned film…’”: Paul V. Beckley, “The Innocents,”
New York Herald Tribune
, December 26, 1961, page 9.
page 334 “‘Oh how glorious it seems…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 10, 1961.
page 335 “‘Today I stood in back of…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, January 22, 1961.
page 335 “‘Is there a pet shop here?…’”: Beaton,
The Restless Years
, pages 127–28.
page 335 “‘an extraordinary and terrible experience…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 8, 1962.
page 336 “‘Somehow they, it, the whole thing…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 25, 1962.
page 336 “‘Of course they all arrived back…’”: Jack Dunphy to Paul Cadmus, May, 1962.
page 336 “Truman added that the Corsicans…”: TC to Donald Windham, June 3, 1962.
page 336 “‘by a lady-in-waiting in the form of…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, July 26, 1962.
page 336 “Gloria had warned her future Number Four…”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 336 “‘Well, Gloria has come and gone…’”: TC to Marie and Alvin Dewey, August 3, 1962.
page 337 “‘bedded down with my book…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, October 15, 1962.
page 337 “The lunch, in honor of the Queen Mother…”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diary, November, 1962.
page 339 “‘I have been rising every morning…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 4, 1963.
page 340 “‘
I need a rest from my book
…’”; TC to Cecil Beaton, February 28, 1963.
page 340 “‘The staple of life is certainly…’”: Daniel Aaron, introduction to Arvin,
American Pantheon
, intro. page xvii.
page 341 “‘If only I could empty my soul…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 4, 1963.
page 342 “‘Eventually it began to own him…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 341 “‘He spoke the way he wrote…’”: D. D. Ryan to GC, February 23, 1976.
page 342 “‘Well, should I?’”: Harper Lee to GC, August 10, 1977.
page 342 “‘My wife Blanche…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
page 342 “‘I was in London last week…’”: TC to Mabel Purcell, December 14, 1962.
page 344 “‘Amigo mio, I have…’”: Perry Smith to TC, June 26, 1963.
page 344 “‘I have your picture with Charlie…’”: Perry Smith to TC, June 30, 1963.
page 344 “‘I like talented personalities…’”: Perry Smith to TC, January 19, 1964.
page 345 “‘This kind of literature is only degenerating…’”: Perry Smith to TC, October 6, 1963.
page 345 “‘P. has another “madon” at me…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, January 1, 1964.
page 345 “‘Forty two months without exercise…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, September 15, 1963.
page 345 “‘I doubt if hell will have me…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, September 8, 1963.
page 345 “‘At times it seems
forty
years…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, April 5, 1964.
page 346 “‘My hair line, at my forehead…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, September 20, 1964.
page 346 “‘My concern is that the info, you have…’”: Perry Smith to TC, January 29, 1964.
page 346 “‘What is the purpose of the book?’”: Perry Smith to TC, April 12, 1964.
page 346 “In a nine-page letter, Dick…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, January 25, 1964.
page 347 “With his usual thoroughness, he looked up…”: Perry Smith to TC, June 4, 1964.
page 347 “‘My Dear Friend,’ he said…”: Perry Smith to TC, November 24, 1964.
page 347 “‘Well, the fat’s in…’”: Richard Hickock to TC, January 28, 1965.
page 347 “‘April 14 you know is the date…’”: Perry Smith to TC, March 18, 1965.
page 348 “…in 1962
Newsweek
had even run a…”: “Romance with Reality,”
Newsweek,
February 5, 1962, page 85.
