The “Nonfiction” Story Revisited
The “Nonfiction” Story Revisited

Summary/Abstract: Capote always referred to his work as falling into cycles in his development as a writer. In the fourth cycle, the one that began after the publication of In Cold Blood and turned out to be his last, Capote wrote rather little because of the mounting dependence on alcohol and drugs from 1977 on. In 1973, he published The Dogs Bark, a collection of essays, which had previously appeared between 1947 – 1967, followed then in 1980 by Music for Chameleons, which contains a variety of prose works written after 1975. Nevertheless, the work to which Capote devoted his final years, Answered Prayers, remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1984.

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