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Article: CAPOTE: THE LONG FADE; The Genius, The Boasting, the Phantom Final Book: His Friends Remember
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- The Washington Post
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- February 12, 1988
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I light a candle for him every Sunday at mass," says Jack Dunphy,
his closest companion for 35 years, first as a lover and longer as a
friend.
"Even from the beginning, his life had the quality of
desperation," says Conde' Nast editor Leo Lerman, who met him in the
mid-'40s, right before the first onslaught of fame.
"I kept holding out this foolish hope that he'd hit bottom and
come back up-but he never did," says Joseph Fox, his editor at Random
House for 24 years, from the glory of "In Cold Blood" through all the
ruin of "Answered Prayers."
Truman Capote's ashes are sitting now on a shelf in a Manhattan
apartment, inside a fake book with gold binding and this inscribed on
the cover: ...