DON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS —THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING
BOOK—NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU! New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer
reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's
never-published final novel Answered Prayers— the dark secrets tragic glamour and Capote's
ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans." "There are certain
women " Truman Capote wrote "who though perhaps not born rich are born to be rich." Barbara
"Babe" Paley Gloria Guinness Marella Agnelli Slim Hayward Pamela Churchill C. Z. Guest
Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister)—they were the toast of midcentury New York. Capote
befriended them received their deepest confidences and ingratiated himself into their lives.
Then in one fell swoop he betrayed them in the most surprising and shocking way possible.
Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed
publication of Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966 when Capote struggled
with a crippling case of writer's block. While enjoying all the fruits of his success he was
struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel...one based on the
remarkable racy lives of his very very rich friends. For years Capote attempted to write
what he believed would have been his magnum opus Answered Prayers . But when he eventually
published a few chapters in Esquire the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his
swans were laid bare for all to see and he was banished from their high-society world forever.
Laurence Leamer recreates the lives of these fascinating women their friendships with Capote
and one another and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels
of the twentieth century.
