Administrative/Regulatory
Dec. 1, 2005
20 Years Later, Still Capote's Lawyer
LOS ANGELES - The famous American writer wanted to kill himself; his lawyer wanted to save him. It was 1984, and the two sat inside a French restaurant opposite the United Nations Plaza in New York. Truman Capote looked desperate: his lips and cheeks drooped; his brow sagged; his clothes were unwashed and his hair was unbrushed. Drugs and booze had deformed him into someone who barely resembled the writer whose book, "In Cold Blood," launched the genre of literary nonfiction and made him one
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