From Truman Capote to Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and Richard Osman, how the author became part of the story
In November 1966, Truman Capote threw a party at the Plaza Hotel in New York. It was called the Black and White Ball, and the guests included an extraordinary assortment of actors, politicians, socialites, artists, writers, and people who seemed famous primarily for knowing other famous people. Everyone wore masks.
Newspapers covered the preparations, the guest list and the event itself with the sort of fascination normally reserved for royal weddings. And at the centre of it all was a small, extravagantly dressed man with an unmistakable voice who had recently published a book about the murder of a Kansas family.