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Transcript: Truman Capote is Remembered by Friends
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- November 18, 1995
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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 ...