TRUMAN CAPOTE(ISBN=9780385491730)

Nobody can match George Plimpton as an adroit weaver of interviews into a tight narrative fabric. Plimpton can make even a negligible life into a magic-carpet ride, as in his editing of Jean Stein's perennial bestseller, Edie, about Andy Warhol's victim-starlet Edie Sedgwick.

Using the oral-biography style that made his Edie (edited with Jean Stein) a bestseller, George Plimpton has blended the voices of Capote's friends, lovers, and colleagues into a captivating and narrative. Here we see the entire span of Capote's life, from his Southern childhood, to his early days in New York; his first literary success with the publication of Other Voices, Other Rooms; his highly active love life; the groundbreaking excitement of In Cold Blood, the first "nonfiction novel"; his years as a jet-setter; and his final days of flagging inspiration, alcoholism, and isolation. All his famous friends and enemies are here: C.Z. Guest, Katharine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, John Huston, William F. Buckley, Jr., and dozens of others.

George Plimpton, the originator of "participatory journalism," is the editor of The Paris Review.  His books include Paper Lion, Out of My League, The Bogey Man, Open Net, The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, and, most recently, The X Factor.  He lives in New York City.
From the Hardcover edition.

The Babbit's Umbrella (juvenile)
Out of My League
Writers at Work, Volumes I-IX (ed.)
Paper Lion
The Bogey Man
American Literary Anthologies, Volumes I-III (ed.)
American Journey: The Times of Bobert F. Kennedy (with Jean Stein)
Pierre's Book (ed.)
Mad Ducks and Bears
One for the flecord
One More July
Shadow Box
Sports (with Neil Leifer)
A Sports Bestiary (with Arnold Both)
Edie: An American Biography (with Jean Stein)
D.V. (with Christopher Hemphill)
 Fireworks: A History and Celebration
 Open Net
 The Curious Case of Sidd Finch
 The Best of Plimpton
 Chronicles of Courage (with Jean Kennedy Smith)
 The Writer's Chapbook
 The Paris Beview Anthology (ed.)
 The Norton Book of Sports (ed.)
 The X-Factor