Nabokov had his butterflies, and Flannery O’Connor her peacocks. But Truman Capote had his swans.
was the term Capote (1924–1984), the author of and , coined for the circle of glamorous female friends he cultivated in the 1950s and ’60s. The term more or less fit: The half dozen or so women were devastatingly gorgeous and socially graceful and, considering their high-flown marriages, tended, like swans, toward elaborate mating rituals. One was.
