Arts Features

The great American writer Truman Capote was born in 1924, died just shy of 60, and would have turned 90 on September 30th.  To mark the occasion, we found a real gem in WFMT's reel-to-reel archives to mark; Capote reading the first chapter of an early draft of his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, in which the protagonist's name was "Connie Golightly."  Capote, of course, changed the character’s first name to "Holly" before the story was published later that year.   The reading was recorded by WFMT at the University of Chicago in 1958 for a Storytellers broadcast.