Notes on Short Stories:
A Christmas Memory (Further Reading)
Contents: IntroductionPlot Summary Characters Themes Style Critical Overview Criticism Sources |
Further Reading
- Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography, Simon & Schuster, 1988.
A very readable and thorough biography of Capote. While it is not an authorized biography, Capote cooperated with Clarke up until his death.
- Inge, M. Thomas. Truman Capote: Conversations, University Press of Mississippi, 1987.
A compilation of interviews with Truman Capote spanning 1948 to 1980. Provides insight into what Capote thought about the craft of writing and his childhood in the South.
- Moates, Marianne M. “Truman Capote’s Southern Years,” in her A Bridge of Childhood, Holt, 1989, 240 p.
Moates provides background on Capote’s childhood and family, including the cousin he fictionalized in “A Christmas Memory.”
