Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
MONTILLO, Roseanne: Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century. Atria Books, 2022.
When Ann Woodward shot her husband, banking heir Billy Woodward, in the middle of the night in 1955, her life changed forever. Though she claimed she thought he was a prowler, few believed the woman who had risen from charismatic showgirl to popular socialite. Everyone had something to say about the scorching scandal afflicting one of the richest and most famous families of New York City, but no one was more obsessed with the tale than Truman Capote. He decided the story of Ann’s turbulent marriage would be the basis of his masterpiece, Answered Prayers —a novel about the dysfunction and sordid secrets revealed to him by his high society “swans”—never thinking that it would eventually lead to Ann’s suicide and his own scandalous downfall.
HB (9781982153731). 320pp, b/w photos. As new in dust jacket.