Fans of Truman Capote’s work will soon have the opportunity to hold the In Cold Blood author’ s personal effects in the flesh. The iconic writer, whose life was dramatized in the 2005 biopic Capote and the 2024 miniseries Feud: Capote vs. the Swans , died in 1984 at 59. Many of his belongings were left to Gerald Clarke, a journalist and friend of Capote who released his biography of the writer in 1988. Now 89 years old, Clarke is downsizing—and putting nearly 400 lots of Capote’s personal objects up for auction .

The Cornell Auction sale is officially scheduled for November 21, with an online preview and bidding slated for October 26.…