Truman Capote in Los Angeles. In 2013 the producers offered to fly Carson and the ashes to New York for a Broadway production of "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Carson declined the offer. Dunphy died in 1992, and in 1994, both his and Capote's ashes were reportedly scattered at Crooked Pond, between Bridgehampton, New York, and Sag Harbor, New York on Long Island, close to Sagaponack, New York, where the two had maintained a property with individual houses for many years. Crooked Pond was chosen because money from the estate of Dunphy and Capote was donated to the Nature Conservancy, which in turn used
Truman Capote and a 1995 film), followed by the musical "House of Flowers" (1954), which spawned the song "A Sleepin' Bee". Capote co-wrote with John Huston the screenplay for Huston's film "Beat the Devil" (1953). Traveling through the Soviet Union with a touring production of "Porgy and Bess", he produced a series of articles for "The New Yorker" that became his first book-length work of nonfiction, "The Muses Are Heard" (1956). In this period he also wrote an autobiographical essay for Holiday Magazine—one of his personal favorites—about his life in Brooklyn Heights in the late 1950s, entitled (1959). In November, 2015, The