About the book: 2023 / Truman Capote, author of such bestsellers as "Voices of the Grass", "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (the most famous of of his works, made famous in 1961 by a film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn), is one of the greatest American prose writers of the 20th century. This collection comprehensively introduces Capote as a master of the nonfiction genre, from his early essays to "Memories of Willa Cather," written the day before his death and never before published; A special place in the book is occupied by the long story “The Muses Are Heard” - Capote’s account of a tour with an African-American troupe that brought the musical “Porgy and Bess” to Moscow and Leningrad back in 1956…