Capote Portrait with Puppets

Truman Capote, photographed in 1948 by writer, dance critic, and art photographer Carl Van Vechten, soon after the publication of Capote's well-received semi-autobiographical first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Childhood photograph of Truman Capote with marionettes in the background.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

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Childhood photograph of Truman Capote with marionettes in the background.