Truman Capote was a perfect writer, a society darling, a legend even before his life ended. 
He was also a very photogenic individual... and he thought so too!
 There is no shortage of amazing photographs of the greatest wordsmith of this century. Here are just a few of the best.

photo by Cecil Beaton (England, 1948)


photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson (New Orleans, 1946)

 


photo by Harold Halma (1948)
This is the photo used on the back of the dust jacket for Other Voices, Other Rooms.
It's lush sexuality shocked the public and caused a tittering scandal.

 


photo by Carol Nash (circa 1980s)

 

Murder By Death
Truman played Lionel Twain in this 1976 film

 

 

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