Babe Paley - known for her marriage to CBS founder William Paley and her ranking in the International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame - was one of the reigning monarchs of New York's high society in the 1950s. This is a novel about Truman Capote's scandalous, headline-making, and heart-wrenching friendship with Babe and New York's society "swans" of the 1950s. A New York Times bestseller and a novel about the complex relationship between a writer and his muse.