Caroline Schimmel collection of Truman Capote material, 1949-1988

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Series III: Works About Capote



Box 9 Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Noonday Press, 1977


Box 9 Breit, Harvey. The Writer Observed. World Publishing Co ., 1956.


Box 9 Brinnin, John M. Sextet. Deutsch. N.Y., 1981


Box 9 Brinnin, John M. Sextet. Deutsch. London, 1982


Box 9 Brinnin, John M., Truman Capote : A Memoir, London, 1987


Box 9 Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography. London: Hamish Hamilton, circa, 1988


Box 9 Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, circa,, 1988


Box 9 Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography London, Sphere Books, circa, 1988


Box 9 Contemporary American Poetry. Hong Kong: World Today Press, 1975



Box 9a Garson, Helen. Truman Capote. Frederick Ungar, 1980.


Box 9a Gotham Book Mart. Books from the library of Truman Capote with important additions, circa, 1983


Box 9a Hallowell, John. Fact and Fiction, University of North Carolina Press,, 1977



Box 13 Krementz, Jill. Photograph of Truman Capote



Box 9a Lish, Gordon. Dear Mr. Capote. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.


Box 9a Lish, Gordon. Dear Mr. Capote Paperback. Sceptre, 1987.


Box 9a Schorer, Mark. The World We Imagine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.


Box 9a Stein, Jean. Edie. Dell, 1983.


Box 9a Wilson, Robert A. "Truman Capote: A Bibliographical Checklist" in American Book Collector, Vol. I, no. 4 , July / August, 1980.


Box 9a Truman Capote Conversations, edited by M. Thomas Inge, University Press of Mississippi


Box 9a Tru--playbill from the play at the Booth Theatre, 1989 December 14, 1989



Box 10 Club, March 1980 "Truman Capote on Sex, Drugs, Alcohol & Writing.", March1980


Box 10 The Grass Harp:A Musical.[Record Album] Painted Smiles Records, [1972 ?]


Box 10 The Great Capote, Playbills and announcements from various theaters



Box 13 The Great Capote, Playbill, 1985



Box 10 New York, February 9, 1976. "Capote Bites the Hands That Fed Him."


Box 10 New York, 10/29, 1984 "Unanswered Prayers: The Death and Life of Truman Capote.", October 29, 1984


Box 10 New York, November 26, 1984 "Unanswered Prayers, Part II.", November 26, 1984


Box 10 New York Times Magazine, 9 July 1978 "The Private World of Truman Capote.", July 1978


Box 10 New York Times Magazine, 16 July 1978 "Truman Capote's World." Part II, July 1978


Box 10 New York Times Magazine, 4 April, 1982. p. 99 regarding In Cold Blood.


Box 10 Truman Capote at Lincoln Center-Playbill (2 copies)


Box 10 Miscellaneous clippings and miscellaneous printed material



Box 12 "Truman Capote at Lincoln Center" poster, 22" x 14"


Box 12 "The Great Capote": Fortune Theater 2 different posters.



Box 13 Elmslie, Kenward. "Yellow Drum: A Musical Play" (t.m.s mimeograph). Based on "The Grass Harp", April 18, 1968