David Attie have been flashing before his eyes, and at the wrong exposure. Brodovitch loved the montages. He spent the entire class gushing over them." On the final night of the course, Brodovitch gave Attie his first professional assignment, which was to create a series of photo montages to illustrate Truman Capote's newest work, Breakfast at Tiffany's, for Harper's in 1958. But while Attie completed the montages, Capote began to clash with the publisher of Harper's, the Hearst Corporation, over the tart language and subject matter of his novella. Alice Morris, the magazine's literary editor, later recounted that Capote agreed to make
Truman Capote well-known popular magazines, including "The Atlantic Monthly", "Harper's Bazaar", "Harper's Magazine", "Mademoiselle", "The New Yorker", "Prairie Schooner", and "Story". In June 1945, "Miriam" was published by "Mademoiselle" and went on to win a prize, Best First-Published Story, in 1946. In the spring of 1946, Capote was accepted at Yaddo, the artists and writers colony at Saratoga Springs, New York. (He later endorsed Patricia Highsmith as a Yaddo candidate, and she wrote "Strangers on a Train" while she was there.) During an interview for "The Paris Review" in 1957, Capote said this of his short story technique: Random House, the publisher