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Capote's will provided that after Dunphy's death, a literary trust would be established, sustained by revenues from Capote's works, to fund various literary prizes, fellowships and scholarships, including the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin, the ...
Truman Capote’s death in 1984 didn’t come as a shock, even at the age of 59. The acclaimed author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood spent the decade preceding his demise publicly ...
The cause of death was listed as “liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication,” PBS says; Entertainment Weekly reports that Capote died of an overdose caused by ...
Capote’s original autopsy report was inconclusive, leading to speculation about his death. Shaw contemplated this in his eulogy. Capote, he presumed, "died of living; it was the deep, rich, and ...
In 1992, Dunphy died of cancer in New York at age 77. Dunphy and Capote had separate houses in Sagaponack, New York. Following their deaths, some of the money from their estates was donated to The Nature Conservancy, which used it to acquire nearby Crooked Pond on the Long Island Greenbelt between Sag Harbor, New York and Bridgehampton, New York, and their mingled ashes were scattered by the ...
The circumstances surrounding her husband's death, which Life called "The Shooting of the Century", led to Woodward becoming a cause célèbre and, later, her banishment from New York high society. Truman Capote published excerpts from an unfinished novel Answered Prayers , in which a pseudonymized but identifiable Woodward is accused of ...
Long after Capote's death—which was the result of alcohol-induced organ failure—his ashes are presented at an auction. The room is filled with eager buyers (some even called in from overseas ...
Richard Eugene Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.