Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) debt to Christopher Isherwood, one of his mentors, in creating the character of Holly Golightly: ""Breakfast at Tiffany's" is in many ways Capote's personal crystallization of Isherwood's Sally Bowles." Truman Capote's aunt, Marie Rudisill notes that Holly is a kindred spirit of Miss Lily Jane Bobbit, the central character of his short story "Children on Their Birthdays". She observes that both characters are "unattached, unconventional wanderers, dreamers in pursuit of some ideal of happiness." Capote himself acknowledged that Golightly was the favorite of his characters. The novella's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of
Steven Novella district court's opinion. Novella, along with some friends, owned a local live action role-playing (LARP) game for about 5 years. It was during this time that they wrote seven d20 books. Novella has coauthored several adventure gaming books including "Twin Crowns", a naval and travel expansion for "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Broadsides!", a role-playing game (RPG) based on the d20 system. Novella also coauthored "Spellbound: A Codex of Ritual Magic", which features "a complete system of magic suitable for any campaign setting" using the d20 system. Novella often writes and speaks about a variety of topics in areas of alternative