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The heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly, became one of Capote's best known creations, and the book's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of my generation".
Mailer is considered an innovator of "creative nonfiction" or "New Journalism", along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, a genre that uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism.
In the mid-’50s, Norman Mailer described Truman Capote as “a ballsy little guy,” yet also “the most perfect writer of my generation, he writes the best sentences, word for word, rhythm for ...
Norman Mailer described him as a “ballsy little guy,” so I suppose it’s not surprising that he’d pull such a stunt. Still, no one expected Capote to betray his closest friend: the powerful ...
The term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism, which included works by himself, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Terry Southern, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese and others.
Burnough, who spent years in politics, used never-before-seen taped interviews from Capote’s inner circle of Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer, Andre Leon Talley, Slim Keith, and Gore Vidal to craft ...
Capote said Golightly was the favorite of his characters. [27] The novella's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of my generation," adding that he "would not have changed two words in Breakfast at Tiffany's". [28]
In 1975, Vidal sued Truman Capote for slander, ... Vidal said, "Once again, words failed Norman Mailer." [90] During the recording of the talk show, ...