Editing Truman Capote (section)

=== Stage, screen, and magazine work ===
In the early 1950s, Capote took on Broadway and films, adapting his 1951 novella, ''[[The Grass Harp]]'', into a [[The Grass Harp (play)|1952 play of the same name]] (later a 1971 musical and a 1995 film), followed by the musical ''[[House of Flowers (musical)|House of Flowers]]'' (1954), which spawned the song "[[A Sleepin' Bee]]".

In fall of 1952, the same year as his first play, film producer [[David O. Selznick]] hired Capote alongside two Hollywood screenwriters for the script of ''[[Terminal Station (film)|Terminal Station]]''. A few months later in early 1953, [[John Huston]] hired him for ''[[Beat the Devil (1953 film)|Beat the Devil]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last= Clarke|first= Gerald|date= 1988|title= Capote: A Biography|location= Fresno, CA|publisher=Linden Pub|chapter=Chapter 28|isbn=9780671228118}}</ref> In 1960, while writing ''In Cold Blood'', [[Jack Clayton]] approached him to rewrite the script for ''[[The Innocents (1961 film)|The Innocents]]''. Capote set aside his novel and in eight weeks produced the script used for the final film.<ref>{{cite book |last= Clarke|first= Gerald|date= 1988|title= Capote: A Biography|location= Fresno, CA|publisher=Linden Pub|chapter=Chapter 39|isbn=9780671228118}}</ref>

Traveling through the [[Soviet Union]] with a touring production of ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'', he produced a series of articles for ''The New Yorker'' that became his first book-length work of nonfiction, ''[[The Muses Are Heard]]'' (1956).

In this period he also wrote an autobiographical essay for ''Holiday Magazine''—one of his personal favorites—about his life in Brooklyn Heights in the late 1950s, titled ''[[Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir]]'' (1959). In November 2015, The Little Bookroom issued a new coffee-table edition of that work, which includes David Attie's previously-unpublished portraits of Capote as well as Attie's [[street photography]] taken in connection with the essay, entitled ''Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, With The Lost Photographs of David Attie''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.littlebookroom.com/products/brooklyn-a-personal-memoir|title=Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, With The Lost Photographs of David Attie|access-date=September 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915215655/http://www.littlebookroom.com/products/brooklyn-a-personal-memoir|archive-date=September 15, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> This edition was well-reviewed in America and overseas,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/nyregion/stories-of-brooklyn-from-gowanus-to-the-heights.html|title=Stories of Brooklyn, From Gowanus to the Heights|access-date=February 5, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 8, 2016|last1=Roberts|first1=Sam|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825023038/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/nyregion/stories-of-brooklyn-from-gowanus-to-the-heights.html|archive-date=August 25, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/travel/books-patti-smith-paul-theroux.html|title=Patti Smith, Paul Theroux and Others on Places Near and Far|access-date=February 5, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 17, 2015|last1=MacNeille|first1=Suzanne|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161214055650/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/travel/books-patti-smith-paul-theroux.html|archive-date=December 14, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> and was also a finalist for a 2016 Indie Book Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiebookawards.com/2016_winners_and_finalists.php|title=2016 Indie Book Awards|access-date=May 7, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611105827/http://www.indiebookawards.com/2016_winners_and_finalists.php|archive-date=June 11, 2016}}</ref>

In 1961 he signed an advertisement for the [[Fair Play for Cuba Committee]]. He later expressed regret for this, as he had genuinely believed Castro was not a communist.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Capote |first1=Truman |title=Truman Capote - Conversations |date=1987 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |pages=144–5}}</ref>