BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stanton, Robert J. Truman Capote: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980, 287 p.

Comprehensive bibliography featuring works by and about Capote.

CRITICISM

Barry, Iris. “Short Stories of Truman Capote.” Herald Tribune (27 February 1949): 2.

Favorable assessment of A Tree of Night.

Garson, Helen. Truman Capote. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1980, 210 p.

Comprehensive critical survey.

———. Truman Capote: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992, 186 p.

Analyzes Capote's short fiction and presents other critical reaction to his work.

Harriss, W. E. A review of Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote. Commonweal 47 (27 February 1948): 500.

Contends that Other Voices, Other Rooms “must be reckoned with as a fascinating experiment in symbols and images by this young but mature and skilful writer.”

Nance, William L. The Worlds of Truman Capote. New York: Stein and Day, 1970, 256 p.

First full-length study of Capote's work.

Nicholson, Geoffrey. “Goodbye to New York.” Spectator 201 (28 November 1958): 787.

Positive review of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Pugh, William White Tison. “Boundless Hearts in a Nightmare World: Queer Sentimentalism and Southern Gothicism in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms.” The Mississippi Quarterly 51, No. 4 (Fall 1998): 663–82.

Considers the role of Gothicism and sentimentalism in Capote's work.

Reed, Kenneth T. Truman Capote. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981, 145 p.

Full-length critical survey of Capote's work.

Rosenfeld, Isaac. “Twenty-Seven Stories.” Partisan Review 16, No. 7 (July 1949): 753.

Negative assessment of A Tree of Night.

Additional coverage of Capote's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1941–1968; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5–8R, 113; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 18, 62; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 3, 8, 13, 19, 34, 38, 58; Contemporary Popular Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 2, 185, 227; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, Vols. 80, 84; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Novelists, Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; Major 20th-Century Writers, Editions 1 and 2; Short Stories for Students, Vol. 2; Something about the Author, Vol. 91; and World Literature Criticism.