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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...