The true story of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans

The writer's fall from grace with his high-flying socialite friends in 1960s Manhattan is captured in a new Disney+ series

Naomi Watts as Babe Paley and Tom Hollander as Truman Capote in Disney+'s Feud: Capote vs the Swans
Naomi Watts as Babe Paley and Tom Hollander as Truman Capote
(Image credit: Disney+ / FX)

Truman Capote went from society darling to social pariah after publishing secrets about the glamorous women of Manhattan's elite.

"Much ink has been spilled" over the rise and fall of this "brilliant and troubled author of groundbreaking books like 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'In Cold Blood'", said Vanity Fair. Now 40 years after his death, he "returns to the zeitgeist as the bleeding and bloated heart" at the centre of Ryan Murphy's Disney+ anthology series "Feud: Capote vs. The Swans".

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Adrienne Wyper has been a freelance sub-editor and writer for The Week's website and magazine since 2015. As a travel and lifestyle journalist, she has also written and edited for other titles including BBC Countryfile, British Travel Journal, Coast, Country Living, Country Walking, Good Housekeeping, The Independent, The Lady and Woman’s Own.