Lost Friendships: A Memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Others
Windham, Donald. Lost Friendships: A Memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Others. Second Printing. 1987. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Is there a more fascinating puzzle than the who, what, when, where, and why in the life of Truman Capote? His ability to make (if not always keep) friends was rivaled only by his great writing talent. As such, Truman Capote is scattered all over the 20th Century. One must look in many places to uncover the truth. There is no better resource than this unjustly overlooked memoir, which follows Truman from his early days as an award-winning writer of short stories through the radioactive fallout of “La Côte Basque, 1965.” Windham and Capote eventually fell out, but Windham puts that animosity in check, relying on his journals and a treasure trove of letters from Capote to reconstruct what happened to their friendship, and what happened to Truman Capote.
“Full-length biographies of Truman and Tennessee are now being written, but my perspective of them is different from that of the biographers. I view them looking forward; the biographers view them looking back. I cannot but see the unlikeliness of what Tennessee and Truman became in the light of what they were.”
--Truman Capote