Transcript: Truman Capote is Remembered by Friends

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This week a group of the late Truman Capote's friends gathered in hismemory at a breakfast in New York. Scott Simon has some thoughts about the author.

SCOTT SIMON, Host: This week in New York City, another character, best remembered from the 1960s, was put on posthumous display. Truman Capote, best known still among readers for his novel Breakfast at Tiffany's and his great work of crime reportage In Cold Blood, was remembered by friends, and friends in name mostly, at a breakfast at Barneys [sp] on Madison Avenue for being a writer who inhaled the life stories of the rich and self-important and told them in an unfinished novel called Answered Prayers, published ...

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