Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of New York's glittering jet-set society following his acclaimed novels Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through George Plimpton’s never-before-heard interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, André Leon Talley, Jay McInerney and his adopted daughter, The Capote Tapes reveals the rise and fall of America’s most iconic gay writer.