People: Mar. 7, 1969

He is "terribly subject" to those New York winter chills, and he has already tried the Sahara and the Caribbean. Miami was a thought, "because it's so infinitely sordid and untempting." So now Author Truman Capote is settled in Palm Springs, Calif., working away on his first book since In Cold Blood. It's to be called Answered Prayers, said Truman, striking that languid reclining pose that he made famous on the jacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms 21 years ago. His new book will have lots of characters and "some of them will be...

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