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...
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