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Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire’s Wife, and the Murder of the Century
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15/100Critics
34/100Scholars
Author:
Roseanne Montillo
Publisher:
Atria Books
Date:
November 1, 2022
When Ann Woodward shot her husband, banking heir Billy Woodward, in the middle of the night in 1955, her life changed forever. Though she claimed she thought he was a prowler, few believed the woman who had risen from charismatic showgirl to popular socialite. Everyone had something to say about the scorching scandal afflicting one of the most rich and famous families of New York City, but no one was more obsessed with the tale than Truman Capote.
What The Reviewers Say
This sharp sliver of true crime spotlights Ann Woodward.
Montillo... makes her case plainly but persuasively.
Montillo, a research librarian and author of several works of nonfiction, makes her case plainly but persuasively.
Deft... observing that in many ways Woodward and Capote were cut from the same cloth, outsiders smitten with high society, and first-class re-inventors of their own lives..
