TISON PUGH is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature; Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon; and Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies (Georgia).

Tison Pugh gives us a thoroughly researched, interpretive, and insightful examination of all the ways Capote’s writing talents, conspicuous celebrity, and uncloseted sexuality intersected in movies and television. Though Capote’s literary reputation primarily rests on his fiction and nonfiction, Pugh illuminates Capote’s versatility in adapting screenplays from the original works of other writers, in his cinematic style in his own original work, in the often subtle gay-themed subtexts of much of his most famous work, and in his unique performance of his gay-celebrity persona, a persona that ultimately influenced estimates of Capote’s literary achievements, inextricably linking his writing with his life. Pugh’s book is an invaluable contribution to the fullest possible picture of one of America’s greatest, most versatile, and most conspicuous writers.

TISON PUGH is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature; Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon; and Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies (Georgia).

Tison Pugh gives us a thoroughly researched, interpretive, and insightful examination of all the ways Capote’s writing talents, conspicuous celebrity, and uncloseted sexuality intersected in movies and television. Though Capote’s literary reputation primarily rests on his fiction and nonfiction, Pugh illuminates Capote’s versatility in adapting screenplays from the original works of other writers, in his cinematic style in his own original work, in the often subtle gay-themed subtexts of much of his most famous work, and in his unique performance of his gay-celebrity persona, a persona that ultimately influenced estimates of Capote’s literary achievements, inextricably linking his writing with his life. Pugh’s book is an invaluable contribution to the fullest possible picture of one of America’s greatest, most versatile, and most conspicuous writers.

TISON PUGH is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature; Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon; and Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies (Georgia).

Tison Pugh gives us a thoroughly researched, interpretive, and insightful examination of all the ways Capote’s writing talents, conspicuous celebrity, and uncloseted sexuality intersected in movies and television. Though Capote’s literary reputation primarily rests on his fiction and nonfiction, Pugh illuminates Capote’s versatility in adapting screenplays from the original works of other writers, in his cinematic style in his own original work, in the often subtle gay-themed subtexts of much of his most famous work, and in his unique performance of his gay-celebrity persona, a persona that ultimately influenced estimates of Capote’s literary achievements, inextricably linking his writing with his life. Pugh’s book is an invaluable contribution to the fullest possible picture of one of America’s greatest, most versatile, and most conspicuous writers.