RosettaBooks Announces eBook CAPOTE Biography

Leading independent eBook publisher RosettaBooks has announced the first-time digital release of Gerald Clarke's 1988 biography of Truman Capote.

Truman Capote achieved the heights of literary success at a young age only to plunge into self-despair later in life. Capote enjoyed the controversy he often created while living both a coveted dream and a nightmare.

Capote illustrates the tumultuous nature of the novelist's life and career with an exclusive, behind-the-scenes perspective. As the Show Business writer for Time Magazine, Clarke profiled well-known authors in depth. His Capote profile birthed this book. "Truman Capote's struggle with genius and celebrity are captured with brilliant insight in Gerald Clarke's Capote," said Arthur Klebanoff, CEO of RosettaBooks.

Clarke witnessed Capote's unraveling first-hand, especially in the last ten years of his life. He interviewed Capote for hundreds of hours as well as those close to him. As Capote's health deteriorated, and hallucinations took over, Clarke enjoyed the full confidence of his subject.

A section of the biography inspired the 2005 film Capote, for which Phillip Seymour Hoffman won the Best Actor Academy Award. The film covers the years that Capote researched and wrote In Cold Blood. The biography covers Capote's entire life. Clarke spent 13 years writing the book. The result is a vivid portrait of the man whose impact on American literature cannot be underestimated.

According to Clarke, Capote instructed, "I won't respect you unless you tell the whole truth." Clarke presents the fallible Capote but in his full grandeur with compassion and precision.

About RosettaBooks: RosettaBooks is the leading independent eBook publisher, responsible for brand line publishing in collaboration with AARP, Harvard Health Publications, and Mayo Clinic, as well as such timeless classics as Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the complete works of Winston Churchill, and the first-time digital release in the U.S. of 35 titles from renowned science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Publisher of ten Kindle Singles, including Ray Bradbury's The Playground, RosettaBooks has launched nine of them to bestseller status. For more information, please visit RosettaBooks.com and follow the e-publisher on Facebook.

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