ASKED IN AN INTERVIEW what he would have become if he hadn’t been a writer, author Truman Capote said, “An attorney,” adding, “Also I wouldn’t have minded being kept, but no one has ever wanted to keep me – not more than a week or so.”
His friend Denham Fouts, however, had no such trouble. About him, Capote remarked, “To watch him walk into a room was an experience. He was beyond being good-looking; he was the single most charming-looking person I’ve ever seen.” He loved to conjecture that “had Denham Fouts yielded to Hitler’s advances there would have been no World War Two” and he referred to Denny as “the best-kept boy in the world”. Nice work if you can get it. And Denny got it. He was a natural.