Driving Truman Capote

Driving Truman Capote is a captivating short story memoir about the young writer Theron Montgomery meeting the famous author Truman Capote in Jacksonville in the 1970s. The story indulges Montgomery's vivid recollection of having this famous author over for dinner, and how their interaction—and Capote’s reaction to Montgomery's writing—impacted his life. The story is both cinematic and attentive to the small details that make this moment so significant for the writer. Brimming with quiet magic and an unvarnished sense of reality, his story delivers the sensation of realized greatness, and the profound embodiment of feeling seen.