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 of his novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (see below), moved to capitalize on this novel's success with the publication of "A Tree of Night and Other Stories" in 1949. In addition to "Miriam", this collection also includes "Shut a Final Door", first published in "The Atlantic Monthly" (August 1947). After "A Tree of Night", Capote published a collection of his travel writings, "Local Color" (1950), which included nine essays originally published in magazines between 1946 and 1950. "A Christmas Memory", a largely autobiographical story taking place in the 1930s, was published in "Mademoiselle" magazine in 1956. It was issued as