11/30/2004
Truman Capote's Past Up For Auction
This week (December 4th), among other Truman Capote items, Sotheby's will auction off 4 composition notebooks and 90 loose sheets containing a manuscript entitled Summer's Crossing, an unpublished novel being called a sort of pre-Breakfast at Tiffany's.
The box in which the novel was found had been rescued by a housesitter in 1966 off a curb after Capote, rich from the success of his novel In Cold Blood, abandoned the papers. It's the story of a 17-year-old girl left in New York while her parents spend the summer in Europe.
Other finds in the Capote auction include a group of snapshots taken on Sicily in the early '50s of Capote, his companion Jack Dunphy, an elderly woman, and "a provocative bare-chested Italian youth lounging on a bed." Wonder who he could be? Hmm.
"Sothebys to Auction Lost Capote Novel" [AP]
Posted 10:55 AM EST by Andy Towle in Books, Photography | Permalink
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! Joanne Carson, ex-wife of the iconic late night TV host, will offer 300-lots of Truman Capote property in a NYC sale set for November 9, 2006 at Bonhams Auctioneers. Ms. Carson and Capote were dear friends and the sale will include manuscripts by TC, clothing, decorative items from his home and objects he collected. News on the auction at www.bonhams.com/us
Posted by: DLM | Oct 4, 2006 3:06:05 PM