Truman Capote's Southern Years, 25th Anniversary Edition

Celebrates Marianne M. Moates’s insightful and detailed account of Truman Capote’s early childhood in Alabama as recounted by his cousin Jennings Faulk Carter Readers are well acquainted with Truman Capote’s meteoric rise to fame and his metamorphosis from literary enfant terrible to literary genius, celebrity author, and dispenser of venomously comic witticisms. It is also well-known that he spent his formative years in the south Alabama hamlet of Monroeville, and that he was abandoned there by