Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was "having a bad spell," Mr. Helm had seen her stand long hours gazing into the garden, as though what she saw bewitched her. ("When I was a girl," she had once told a friend, "I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things, and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough...")

Carson bought a crypt at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Forster but had ignored the author's homosexuality. Capote's will provided that after Dunphy's death a literary trust would be establiTruman Capoted sustained by revenues from Capote's works to fund various literary prizes fellowships and scholarships including the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin the Smith College professor and critic who lost his job after his homosexuality was exposed.

Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30 1924 – August 25 1984) known as Truman Capote (pron. In the 1970s he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 11 and for the rest of his childhood he honed his writing ability.