Nationality American Occupation Author Movies Capote | Name Gerald Clarke Awards USC Scripter Award Role Writer | |
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Books Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garl, Capote, The Drone Virus, Truman Capote, Airling and other poems Similar People Dan Futterman, Perry Edward Smith, Bennett Miller, Truman Capote, Caroline Baron | ||
Gerald Clarke (born June 21, 1937) is an American writer, best known for the biographies Capote (1988) (made into the Oscar-winning 2005 film Capote) and Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (2000).
He has also written for magazines including Esquire, Architectural Digest, and Time Magazine, where he was a senior writer for many years.
While an undergraduate at Yale, he wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
A native of Los Angeles, Clarke now lives in Bridgehampton, in eastern Long Island, New York.
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