Truman Capote, author of such bestselling books as Voices of the Grass, In Cold Blood, and Breakfast at Tiffany's (his most famous work, made famous by the 1961 film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn), is among the biggest American prose writers of the 20th century. This collection comprehensively introduces Capote as a master of the nonfiction genre, from his early essays to "Memories of Willa Cather," written the day before his death and never before published; A special place in the book is occupied by the long story “The Muses Are Heard” - Capote’s account of a tour with an African-American troupe that brought the musical “Porgy and Bess” to Moscow and Leningrad back in 1956...