Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends -- the alluring socialites Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband,...

"New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers--the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans.""--

A Christmas memory: A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them. One Christmas: An eight-year-old boy spends the holidays in New Orleans with a father he's never known. He dreams of finding Santa, snow and a relationship with his father, but instead finds a man who cares more about making a fast buck. The Thanksgiving visitor: A boy recalls his life with...

Eccentric New York City playgirl Holly Golightly is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor; a fashion photographer pulls a shy bookstore clerk from obscurity to become a model in Paris; a Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady under the tutelage of an arrogant professor; a screenwriter has a deadline and no script until his secretary comes to the rescue by acting out a series of preposterous plotlines;...