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  2. Answered Prayers - Wikipedia

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    The first chapter ("Unspoiled Monsters") chronicles the "picaresque" exploits of P.B. Jones, a young writer (enmeshed in the process of writing a novel, Answered Prayers) and "bisexual hustler" who "beds men and women alike if they can further his literary career" in the 1940s New York literary milieu; accordingly, both Katherine Anne Porter ...

  3. Ann Woodward - Wikipedia

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    In one of the excerpts from Answered Prayers published in Esquire magazine, "La Côte Basque 1965", Capote writes about a character named Ann Hopkins, a bigamist and gold digger who shoots her husband, based on Woodward's killing of her husband, implying that it was murder. [8] [7] [36] The released excerpts caused a wave of gossip.

  4. Truman Capote - Wikipedia

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    The catty beginning to his still-unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, was the catalyst of Capote's social suicide. Many of Capote's circle of high-society female friends, whom he called his "swans", were featured in the text, some under pseudonyms and others by their real names.

  5. What Ever Happened to Truman Capote’s 'Answered Prayers ...

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    Answered Prayers, his so-called “magnum opus,” was published after Capote’s death in 1984, but it only contained parts of his manuscript. The original, completed version was never found.

  6. San Silvestro in Capite - Wikipedia

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    The relics of Pope Sylvester I, Pope Stephen I and Pope Dionysius were exhumed and re-enshrined beneath the high altar when the new church was consecrated in 1601. The church also contains the relics of Tarcisius. The church of San Silvestro was granted to the English Catholics by Pope Leo XIII in 1890, and is now served by Irish Pallottine ...

  7. Denham Fouts - Wikipedia

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    Truman Capote's "Unspoiled Monsters", contained in his Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel, is based on Capote's conception of Fouts' life. [15] Gore Vidal's short story "Pages from an Abandoned Journal", contained in his 1956 work A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories is based on Fouts' life. [15] Vidal was introduced to Fouts by John Lehmann ...

  8. Music for Chameleons - Wikipedia

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    In the preface of the collection, Capote claims to have suffered a drug and alcohol-induced nervous breakdown in 1977, at which point he ceased working on his highly anticipated follow-up to In Cold Blood, Answered Prayers, portions of which had elicited a riotous reaction in the jet set when excerpted in Esquire magazine throughout 1975 and 1976.

  9. Congressional Prayer Room - Wikipedia

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    Stained-glass window of George Washington at prayer in the Congressional Prayer Room. The Congressional Prayer Room near the rotunda in the United States Capitol is a place set aside for the use of members of Congress who seek a quiet place for meditation or prayer. The space is not open to tour groups or visitors to the Capitol.