Truman Capote's Works
--My Personal Evaluation--
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Other Voices, Other Rooms(1948) |
**** |
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A Tree of Night and Other Stories(1949) | |
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Masater Misery |
***** |
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Children on Their Birthdays |
*** |
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Shut a Final Door |
*** |
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Jug of Silver |
**** |
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Miriam |
***** |
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The Headless Hawk |
**** |
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My Side of the Matter |
* |
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A Tree of Night |
**** |
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The Grass Harp(1951) |
**** |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's(1958) | |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's |
**** |
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House of Flowers |
* |
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A Diamond Guitar |
*** |
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A Christmas Memory |
**** |
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Selecting Writings of Truman Capote(1963) | |
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Among the Paths to Eden |
***** |
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In Cold Blood(1966) |
***** |
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The Thanksgiving Visitor(1968) |
*** |
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The Dogs Bark: Public People and Public Places(1973) | |
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A Voice from a Cloud |
** |
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The White Rose |
*** |
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| Fontana Vecchia | ** |
| Lola | **** |
| A House on the Heights | |
| Greek Paragraphs | *** |
| The Muses Are Heard | *** |
| The Duke in His Domain | |
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| Ghosts in Sunlight: The Filming of In Cold Blood | ** |
| Self-Portrait | **** |
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Music for Chameleons(1980) | |
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Music for Chameleons |
** |
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Mr. Jones |
**** |
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A Lamp in a Window |
***** |
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Mojave |
*** |
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Hospitality |
**** |
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Dazzle |
*** |
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Handcarved coffins: A Nonfiction Account of an American Crime |
**** |
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A Day's Work |
***** |
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Hello, Stranger |
**** |
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Hidden Gardens |
*** |
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Derring-do |
** |
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Then It All Came Down |
*** |
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A Beautiful Child |
**** |
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Nocturnal Turnings |
***** |
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One Christmas(1983) |
** |
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Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel(1987) |
** |
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Evaluation | |
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***** |
Excellent |
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*** |
Not Bad |
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* |
Poor |
- Aldridge, John W. After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars. New York: Noonday, 1958.
- Allmendinger, Blake. "The Room Was Locked, With the Key on the Inside: Female Influence in Truman Capote's 'My Side of Matter.'" Studies in Short Fiction 24 (1987): 279-288.
- Bawer, Bruce. "Capote's Children." The New Criterion 3.10 (1985): 39-44.
- Bonner, Thomas, Jr. "Truman Capote." The History of Southern Literature. Ed. Rubin Louis D. Jr., et al. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1985. 483-485.
- Brinnin, John Malcolm. Truman Capote: Dear Heart, Old Buddy. New York: Delta, 1988.
- Christensen, Peter G. "Truman Capote (1924-1984)." Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Source Book. Ed. Emmannel Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. 46-59.
- Clark, Gerald. Capote: A Biography. 1988. London: Cardinal, 1989.
- Conrad, Peter. The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York. New York: Oxford UP, 1984.
- Eisinger, Chester E. Fiction of the Forties. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1963.
- Fleming, Anne Taylor. "The Private World of Truman Capote." New York Times Magazine 9 July 1978: 22-25. 16 July 1978: 12-15.
- Garson, Helen S. Truman Capote. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1963.
- Grobel, Lawrence. Conversations with Capote. 1985. New York: Signet, 1988.
- Hassan, Ihab H. Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1961.
- Hill, Pati. "Truman Capote Interview." Writers at Works: The Paris Review Interviews. Ed. Malcolm Cowley. London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. 283-89.
- Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. London: Secker & Warburg, 1974.
- ---. Contemporaries. London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.
- Kirby, David K. "The Princess and the Frog: The Modern American Short Story as Fairy Tale." Minnesota Review 4 (1973): 145-49.
- Levin, Paul. "Truman Capote: The Revelation of the Broken Image." Recent American Fiction: Some Critical Views. Ed. Joseph J Waldmeir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. 153-66.
- Nance, William L. The Worlds of Truman Capote. 1970. New York: Stein and Day, 1973.
- Pike, Burton. The Image of the City in Modern Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.
- Reed, Kenneth T. Truman Capote. Twayne's United States Authors Ser. 388. Boston: Twayne, 1981.
- Schorer, Mark. "McCullers and Capote: Basic Patterns." The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Nona Balakian and Charles Simmons. ed. New York: Gordian, 1973. 79-107.
- Zlotonick, Joan. Portrait of an American City: The Novelists' New York. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1982.
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