New Truman Capote Novel to be Published

Posted on September 29, 2005

USA Today reports that next month Random House will publish an early, unreleased novel by Truman Capote. Capote wrote Summer Crossing in 1943 and later told friends that he had destroyed the manuscript. The novel tells the story of socialite Grady McNeil and her adventures in New York.

The manuscript of "Summer Crossing" was found last year at the bottom of a box of Capote manuscripts and photos that was consigned by a relative of the author's former house sitter.

Capote, who died in 1984, had hired the sitter to look after his Brooklyn apartment while he was in Switzerland writing his classic true-crime book, "In Cold Blood," which came out in 1966.

Random House says the book is coming out next month, but Amazon.com has it listed as being released in June, 2006, which is a bit mysterious.

A new film about Capote's writing of In Cold Blood is in the works starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and has very good early buzz.

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