Carrington House friends in the community, including Truman Capote. In 1957, Capote developed a novella there that would become "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Other guests included New York City Ballet co-founder Lincoln Kerstein, fashion designer Bill Blass, actor Henry Fonda, actress Gertrude Lawrence, and actress Katharine Hepburn. Carrington owned the house for almost fifty years, then sold it to the US government as part of Fire Island National Seashore under the condition that he be able to live there for the rest of his life; he died on July 3, 1975. National Park Service Ranger Bob Freda lived there for the next twenty
Jeff Truman "The Doctor Blake Mysteries". He also wrote for "" (nominated for an AWGIE award in 2012), "", and "". In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for "Underbelly: Badness". Truman wrote the feature film "Envy" which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1999. He also had a small role in Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns". Truman died on 2 December 2014, after suffering a brain haemorrhage, he was 57. Jeff Truman Jeffrey Maxwell Truman (4 November 1957 – 2 December 2014) was an Australian film and television screenwriter