Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — "Dear Genius This biography by Truman Capote's companion of thirty-five years offers a portrait of the writers and a memoir of their tempestuous relationship. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. More Details Original Title. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about "Dear Genius Be the first to ask a question about "Dear Genius Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Sort order. Start your review of "Dear Genius Aug 17, Jayne rated it liked it. I love memoirs, and I particularly love Truman Capote. But, reading this during anxiety and grief ridden days which the last few weeks have been for me is perhaps a bad idea.
May 04, Carina added it Shelves: did-not-finish. I just could not keep reading. There are two Jacks in this book. The Jack who is in a relationship with Truman Capote and the priest who is a metaphor for Jack, the person Jack should have been or wanted to be or something. Just not good. Feb 04, Janice rated it did not like it.
Nothing good to say about this travesty of a bio. Oct 05, Rhonda rated it really liked it. He formed a fast bond with his mother's distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk, whom Truman called "Sook".
In Monroeville, he was a neighbor and friend of author Harper Lee, who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird , with the character Dill being based on Capote. Donald Windham was an American novelist and memoirist.
He is perhaps best known for his friendships with Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Windham became estranged from Williams in the Seventies after Williams published his Memoirs. Windham later published a volume of their correspondence, which Williams claimed was done without permission. Windham remained a friend of Capote until Capote's death. Lost Friendships, a memoir of his friendship with Capote and Williams, was published in Truman Capote by Carl Van Vechten As a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before he entered his first year of schooling.
Capote was often seen at age five carrying his dictionary and notepad, and he began writing fiction at the age of He was given the nickname Bulldog around this age, possibly a phonetic reference and pun of "Bulldog Truman" to the fictional detective Bulldog Drummond popular in films of the mids.
On Saturdays, he made trips from Monroeville to the nearby city of Mobile on the Gulf Coast, and at one point he submitted a short story, "Old Mrs. Busybody", to a children's writing contest sponsored by the Mobile Press Register. However, Joseph was convicted of embezzlement and shortly afterwards, when his income crashed, the family was forced to leave Park Avenue.
Of his early days, Capote related, "I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about I say seriously in the sense that like other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano or whatever, I used to go home from school every day, and I would write for about three hours. I was obsessed by it. He then attended St.
Joseph Military Academy. In , the Capote family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and Truman attended Greenwich High School, where he wrote for both the school's literary journal, The Green Witch, and the school newspaper.
That was the end of his formal education. While still attending Franklin in , Capote began working as copyboy in the art department at The New Yorker, a job he held for two years, before being fired for angering poet Robert Frost. Years later, he reminisced, "Not a very grand job, for all it really involved was sorting cartoons and clipping newspapers. Still, I was fortunate to have it, especially since I was determined never to set a studious foot inside a college classroom. I felt that either one was or wasn't a writer, and no combination of professors could influence the outcome.
I still think I was correct, at least in my own case. Capote and his Monroeville neighbor, Harper Lee, remained lifelong friends. Capote once acknowledged this: "Mr. Lee, Harper Lee's mother and father, lived very near. Harper Lee was my best friend.
Did you ever read her book, To Kill a Mockingbird? I'm a character in that book, which takes place in the same small town in Alabama where we lived. Her father was a lawyer, and she and I used to go to trials all the time as children. We went to the trials instead of going to the movies. Later, Lee was his crucial research partner for In Cold Blood. Capote was 5 feet 3 inches cm tall and openly homosexual.
Capote was well known for his distinctive, high-pitched voice and odd vocal mannerisms, his offbeat manner of dress and his fabrications. He often claimed to know intimately people whom he had in fact never met, such as Greta Garbo. It was , and Truman had recently been made a celebrity overnight by the success of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Trained in ballet, Dunphy had just toured with the Balanchine company in South America before marrying a fellow dancer from Philadelphia, then treading the boards with his newly-wed in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma!. Truman was 11 years his junior. But what really underpinned the mysterious, one-size-fits-one compatibility between the two men who began a year relationship that evening?
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