Mick Jagger he described as moving ‘like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire’. Even Elizabeth Taylor, whom he got to know well and had profiled for a magazine, describing her eyes as ‘so liquid with life’, was defined as having ‘an extraordinary inferiority complex, and it’s difficult to get through’. But then Truman Capote was not for nothing hailed as one of the sharpest writers of the 20th Century. His 1958 novella, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Audrey Hepburn (though he hated her in the role), while his 1966 true-crime novel, In Cold Blood, is to this day regarded as one of the greatest examples of the genre.