Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages (Blood Moon's Babylon Series)
Authors: Darwin Porter,Danforth Prince
THE FEUDS AND PRIVATE LIVES OF
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS,
GORE VIDAL,
TRUMAN CAPOTE,
AND MEMBERS OF THEIR ENTOURAGES
O
THER
B
OOKS BY
D
ARWIN
P
ORTER
B
IOGRAPHIES
Those Glamorous Gabors, Bombshells from Budapest Inside Linda Lovelace’s Deep Throat
—Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism
Elizabeth Taylor
,
There is Nothing Like a Dame
Marilyn at Rainbow’s End
: Sex, Lies, Murder, and the Great Cover-up
J. Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson—
Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America’s Most Famous Men and Women
Frank Sinatra
,
The Boudoir Singer. All the Gossip Unfit to Print
The Kennedys
,
All the Gossip Unfit to Print
Humphrey Bogart,
The Making of a Legend
Howard Hughes
: Hell’s Angel
Steve McQueen
,
King of Cool, Tales of a Lurid Life
Paul Newman
,
The Man Behind the Baby Blues
Merv Griffin
,
A Life in the Closet
Brando Unzipped
The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart Katharine the Great
—Hepburn, Secrets of a Lifetime Revealed
Jacko, His Rise and Fall,
The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson
and, co-authored with Roy Moseley
Damn You, Scarlett O’Hara
,
The Private Lives of Vivien Leigh & and Laurence Olivier
C
OMING
S
OON
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
—A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams
Love Triangle
—Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, & Nancy Davis
F
ILM
C
RITICISM
50 Years of Queer Cinema
—500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made (2010)
N
ON
-F
ICTION
Hollywood Babylon—It’s Back!
and
Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again!
N
OVELS
Butterflies in Heat, Marika, Venus
(a roman à clef based on the life of Anaïs Nin)
Razzle-Dazzle, Midnight in Savannah, Rhinestone Country, Blood Moon, Hollywood’s Silent Closet
T
RAVEL
G
UIDES
Many editions and many variations of
The Frommer Guides
to Europe, the Caribbean, California, Georgia and the Carolinas, New England, Bermuda, and The Bahamas
T
HE
F
EUDS AND
P
RIVATE
L
IVES OF
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A
ND
M
EMBERS OF
T
HEIR
E
NTOURAGES
Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince
T
HE
F
EUDS AND
P
RIVATE
L
IVES OF
T
ENNESSEE
W
ILLIAMS
, G
ORE
V
IDAL
, T
RUMAN
C
APOTE
, & M
EMBERS OF THEIR
E
NTOURAGES
Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Copyright ©2014, Blood Moon productions, ltd.
All RIGHTS RESERVED
Manufactured in the united states of America
ISBN 978-1-936003-37-2
Special thanks to the stanley Mills haggart Collection, the Woody parrish-Martin Collection, the h. lee phillips Collection, and Elsa Maxwell Cafe society.
Cover designs by Richard leeds (
Bigwigdesign.com
)
Videography and publicity Trailers by piotr Kajstura
Distributed in North America, the U.K., and Australia through National Book Network (
www.NBNbooks.com
)
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 Frank Merlo |  Stanley Mills Haggart |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lana Turner and the Celluloid Brassiere
Clark Gable, Nina, and Eugene Vidal
Tennessee Confronts Truman’s “Forked Tongue”
Gore vs. Truman (The Eagle Meets the Condor)
A Streetcar Named Marlon Brando
Postwar Europe’s Most Sought-After Male Prostitute
Tennessee’s Rocky Ride on “The Little Horse”
Tennessee and Gore in Pursuit of Billy the Kid