About the Author

Thomas Fahy is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies program at Long Island University-Post, USA. He is the author of numerous books, including Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos and Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote, and the editor of The Philosophy of Horror.

Reviews

Fahy's book is beautifully written and will surely be of a great use to readers first engaging Capote's work.-- "Choice"