A Christmas Memory
Together in one festive, keepsake volume, here are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction.
“A Christmas Memory” and “The Thanksgiving Visitor” were inspired by Capote’s early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. These two childhood tales pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became Capote’s best friend. In “A Christmas Memory,” Miss Sook, Buddy (the narrator), and their dog, Queenie, celebrate the yuletide in a hilariously tipsy state. In the poignant reminiscence “One Christmas,” six-year-old Buddy journeys to New Orleans for a reunion with his estranged father that shatters many illusions. And in “The Thanksgiving Visitor,” Miss Sook invites an unexpected…
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November 12, 1996
Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Among his celebrated works are Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory, and In Cold Blood, widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died…
Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
The Early Stories of Truman Capote
Truman Capote
The 50s: The Story of a Decade
The New Yorker
A Christmas Memory
Truman Capote; illustrated by Beth Peck
Portraits and Observations
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote
Summer Crossing
Truman Capote
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Truman Capote
Too Brief a Treat
Truman Capote Edited by Gerald Clark
A Christmas Memory
Truman Capote
Music for Chameleons
Truman Capote
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux; Translated and Edited by Mireille Ribière; Introduction by Jann Matlock; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice & Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
River Stories
Edited by Henry Hughes
Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en; Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Lovell; Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
Margaret Forster