CLARKE, Gerald [Charles Strouse].
Capote: A Biography.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
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First Edition of Gerald Clarke's Capote: A Biography; From the Library of Broadway Composer Charles Strouse
First edition of Gerald Clarke's definitive biography of the writer Truman Capote. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman, with Strouse's ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Over his 50-year career, Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie, as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family ("Those Were the Days"). His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway's most successful scores ever, with "Tomorrow" and other songs from the production becoming enduring American musical standards admired by generations. His reach knew no genre or generation, from a number-one Billboard hit in 1958 to Jay-Z's Grammy-winning sampling of "It's the Hard-Knock Life" four decades later, and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters and Theater Halls of Fame. In very good condition.
Gerald Clarke's Capote (1988) is the definitive biography of Truman Capote, author of Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and In Cold Blood. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Capote himself over nearly two decades, as well as with his friends and contemporaries, Clarke traced the writer's rise from a lonely Alabama childhood to the dazzling heights of literary celebrity and his long decline into addiction and self-destruction. The book served as the basis for the 2005 film Capote, for which Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Gerald Clarke, a former editor and writer for Time magazine, later published Get Happy, an acclaimed biography of Judy Garland.
Capote: A Biography.
$35.00
In Stock