![]() ![]() With the help of his childhood friend, Lee, Capote spent roughly three months in the high plains of western Kansas to research what was originally conceived as a relatively short article for The New Yorker. ![]() ![]() Seven years later and back in New York, Capote stumbled across a headline in this paper - “Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain” - in November 1959. Last spring and summer, I went in search of these seaside idylls, hoping to retrace a long ago golden boy’s moment in the sun. His time living in the small coastal towns and villages of southern Italy and Spain allowed him to produce a remarkable output that matched his outsized ambition. While Capote would rise to become arguably New York’s greatest literary and social lion of the ’60s, whose iconic Black and White Ball at the Plaza hotel in Manhattan in 1966 would be called the “party of the century,” with boldfaced names from Frank Sinatra to the Maharani of Jaipur mingling behind costume masks, the Capote who bunked in Forio knew his best work could only be done in self-imposed exile. He realized that if he wanted to write - and that’s all he wanted to do - he would have to do it elsewhere.” Though he came from a small town in Alabama, he loved New York, loved it so much that he found it hard to write when it was so tempting to go out on the town,” Mr. He wanted to travel, and Truman wanted to please him,” said Gerald Clarke, author of the authoritative “ Capote: A Biography.” “Jack was very much part of the equation. ![]()
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