Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse

Chronology

Introduction

Overviews and Interviews

Plate du Jour: Soul Food: Truman Capote on Black Culture by Cecil M. Brown

The Metaphorical World of Truman Capote by John W. Aldridge

The Daydream and Nightmare of Narcissus by Ihab H. Hassan

Capote As Gay American Author by Peter G. Christensen

Genres and Individual Works

Stage and Fiction

On Capote's Grass Harp by Eric Bentley

The Grass Menagerie by George Jean Nathan

The Stage: House of Flowers by Richard Hayes

Short Stories

Capote's Tales by Leslie Fiedler

Truman Capote: The Revelation of the Broken Image by Paul Levine

From Gothic to Camp by Irving Malin

Novels

Other Voices, Other Rooms: Oedipus Between the Covers by Marvin E. Mengeling

A Blizzard of Butterflies by H. P. Lazarus

Birth of a Heroine by Ihab H. Hassan

A Final Door by Terrence Rafferty

Fact into Fiction

Capote's Crime and Punishment by Diana Trilling

The Kansas Farm Murders by Kenneth Tynan

The "Non-Fiction" Novel by William Wiegand

Real Toads in Real Gardens: Reflections on the Art of Non-Fiction Fiction and the Legacy of Truman Capote by David Galloway

Religion and Style in THE DOGS BARK and MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS by John C. Waldmeir

"Fire, Fire, Fire Flowing Like a River, River, River": History and Postmodernism in Truman Capote's HANDCARVED COFFINS by Jack Hicks

Capote and Others

Gothic As Vortex: The Form of Horror in Capote, Faulkner, and Styron by J. Douglas Perry

Glimpses of "A Good Man" in Capote's IN COLD BLOOD by Jon Tuttle

Variations on a Dream: Katherine Anne Porter and Truman Capote by William L. Nance

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY and IN COLD BLOOD: Turning Case History into Art by John J. McAleer

Bibliography

Major Works and Themes by Peter G. Christensen

Selected Bibliography

Index