Truman Capote was a reporter, writer, and celebrity renowned for being the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), on which the film of the same name featuring Audrey Hepburn and directed by Blake Edwards was based. Truman Capote on the roof terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, 1950s Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century (London: Andre Deutsch, 1979), p. He is always madly amusing and I loved having him stay with me. He only allowed me a very light lunch of eggs. Every night he took me to Harry’s Bar and made me eat fish. He was very keen on keeping his line and made me diet also. We became very good friends and later he spent two months as my house guest writing The Muses Are Heard. A little man in carpet slippers shuffling around. Truman Capote I first met in my entrance hall. He then stayed in her home for six weeks in the spring of 1956 and for the last time in the spring of 1961. He visited Peggy Guggenheim for the first time in September 1950, returned in September two years later, and again in the summer of 1953. Truman Capote (1924–84) was a frequent visitor to Palazzo Venier dei Leoni.
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