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Upon Willa Cather’s passing her life companion Edith Lewis was dealing with something more than Truman Capote’s plagiarism of Willa’s works. Truman’s proclivity to abuse was going further over the line than that even in the early years and would become more persistent and assuming as the years passed despite Edith’s efforts to ward him off in public perception without drawing overt attention to the problem, just awareness and protecting Willa and the nature of the literature. As far as the public could see, that wasn’t much of a problem in that Truman was making sure that he was the most famous person with the identity of ‘writer,’ certainly a free landscape to enter, and his presumed connection to Willa...

After Posing As Prodigy and “Nascent Innocent Available Sexuality” On the Cover of His Plagiarized First Novel Aiming For Solicited Spectacle Fame, How Truman Capote Made Up Having Had A Personal Relationship With Author Willa Cather* When It Was Actually Stephen Tennant Who Was Her Young, Gay, Learned Literary Friend, And Whose Details Truman Based His Lie On, The Deceit He Repeated The Rest Of His Life (*Willa wrote of a “chance encounter” in France in meeting Flaubert’s niece, collected in Willa Cather In Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey) And The Intrepid Stand That Audrey Hepburn Took To Change the Fabrication Back to the Real Course "Art is not life, and it is not a substitute for...

The public didn't pick up on the predictable patterns of Truman Capote's malignant narcissism, just as they accept it as innocuous now, the rattlesnake again in the grass with Taylor Swift. But as Willa Cather's literary executor, her life-partner Edith Lewis knew she could show the radical difference: it was in the spirit of the works and the Being, and what that extraordinarily opens in the tremendous for all of us. It's now there to be found. It's what gay socialite and Willa Cather's close friend Stephen Tennant would write about Willa and that become his literary legacy, what Audrey Hepburn would audaciously risk herself in showing, what extraordinary scholar and biographer E. K. Brown would write in intensity as...

Truman Capote himself said he had no content. He said that he was a liar. He showed his desperate need and intent to invade personal lives past boundaries and cause as much harm as possible for fame. Truman Capote demonstrated malignant narcissism, his patterned personality disorder in every line written and every action and in his obsessive preening for constant attention. Why did no one believe him when he said what he was? As narcissists do, he assumed ownership of other people—and now we can see—their writing. Personality disorders distort perception in their own head and then manipulate that perception with others.Now we can look at the evidence at the beginning of Truman Capote’s career of manipulation of fame and...

What emerges from Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Audrey Hepburn. What emerges is very real person in the here and now and what she did that stands out and apart from the movie and shows us what she’s made of. From that it is that we are engaging with her spirit, her inner character that speaks volumes—more than even the formidable endurance of the classic movie—of which entertainment and “fame” have been the limits, not exactly transition in understanding, but now we are breaking free into something more real beyond the screen that is alive and powerful and moving. I think it is the thing of this moment to know what that is. Audrey actually had to work around it being a movie to accomplish a greater goal. The movie...