(Capote, Truman)

Portrait photograph of the young Truman Capote

Color gelatin print. Full-length frontal view of the author, relaxed and smiling in a pinstriped suit with bow tie. 8-1/2 x 7 inches, N.p. [Alabama?]: n.d. [ca. 1945]. Matted in the original folder, and INSCRIBED on the matted in ink: "For Seabon and Addie / With Love from / Truman" Slight soiling to folder.

When Capote's mother and father divorced, four-year-old Truman was send to Monroeville, Alabama to live with his mother's siblings, Seabon and Addie Faulk, where he made friends with his neighbor, Harper Lee. A fine association.

Item #244690       Price: $1,500.00