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absolutely wild about Truman, and Jackie Kennedy is furious at Truman because he has transferred his affections from Jackie to her sister. There is great rivalry between these sisters.

To go on with Truman--as he became more and more popular and knew more and more society people, who all adopted him, we had to keep him trying to write because he was so busy going to parties and being the town's most eligible extra man. He's the greatest gossip in the world. He knows everything that's going on, and what he doesn't know he makes up. You never know whether he's telling the truth or lying but you listen in fascination. If you catch him in a lie, he laughs happily. He doesn't care. He admits that he gets carried away with his stories. He's a mischief-maker. He does much of this with sheer malice aforethought. He loves to get people involved and cause trouble. This is part of his joy. Everybody forgives him of course so he's become a spoiled little boy.

But talented beyond belief...and proved that he was not only a good novelist but one of the great reporters when he wrote The Muses Are Heard, which is the often hilarious story of the Porgy and Bess troupe in Russia. It was another big success.

Yes, but all of his books before In Cold Blood had never really gotten...