Clarke quotes Capote as saying ... Capote clearly wasn’t lacking confidence. Answered Prayers was going to depict “American society in the second half of the twentieth century.

In 1958, author Truman Capote began working on a novel he called Answered Prayers, a book inspired by true events that would tell the story of a writer’s journey through American high society.

Clarke quotes Capote as saying ... Capote clearly wasn’t lacking confidence. Answered Prayers was going to depict “American society in the second half of the twentieth century.