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
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