Truman Capote and Katharine Graham

Truman Capote escorts Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham into his masked ball at New York City's Plaza Hotel in this 1966 photo by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Mel Finkelstein. Capote threw the party in celebration of completing the manuscript for his celebrated book In Cold Blood.

Truman Capote and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham
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Truman Capote and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham