Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Capote as well as with nearly everyone else who knew him, this absorbing biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. In addition to offering a vived recreation of the period in Capote's life that produced “In Cold Blood”, “Capote” candidly recounts this gifted writer's descent into a life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his enermous talent. But not before he's feuded with the likes of Gore Vidal and Jacqualine Susann, staged his never-to-be-equalled Black and White Ball, and left an impact that is still resonating thirty years later.