Dec 30, 2009

A Christmas Memory | Critical Overview

"A Christmas Memory" was first published in Mademoiselle in 1956 and then reprinted in Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963, but it received little attention until it was reprinted as a gift-boxed set for Christmas in 1966. Reviews at the time were generally favorable, with a writer for Harper's calling it "an enchanting little book destined ... to become a classic." Nancy McKenzie noted in The New York Times that the story ''seesaws slowly and nostalgically in time." However, other critics, including playwright Tennessee Williams, characterized the...