Contemporary Literary Masters: Truman Capote

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Truman Capote reads an excerpt from "Children on Their Birthdays" on Contemporary Literary Masters. This story was first published in 1948 and appears in the collection "A Tree of Night and Other Stories."

Recorded by Columbia.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150004
Municipal archives id: T273

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