“It is rarely that, after middle age, one makes a great new friend, but I really believe I can put the American, Truman Capote, in that category.”
Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years, Diaries: 1948-55
Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years, Diaries: 1948-55
 Truman Capote, Photographed by Cecil Beaton on Capote's First Visit To Reddish House, Beaton's Country Home in Broad Chalke |  The Strenuous Years, Diaries: 1948-55" |
Their friendship would eventually decline, roughly coinciding with the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966. Per Beaton biographer Hugo Vickers: “Cecil found it hard to forgive success in others and this marked a gradual diminution of his friendship with Truman. He felt that Truman was wasting his talents in social life.”
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