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Truman Capote (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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In addition to stories and short novels, Truman Capote wrote travel sketches and various kinds of nonfiction, much of which has been collected, along with some of Capote’s short stories and novellas, in A Capote Reader (1987). The volume Local Color (1950), on the other hand, is a collection solely of travel essays. Capote also did some screenwriting, including critically well-received scripts for Beat the Devil (1954) and The Innocents (1961), an adaptation of the Henry James story The Turn of the Screw (1898), and an...
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