Inside Truman Capote's Black & White Ball; Leena Kim. Editor. Leena Kim is Town & Country’s Editor, covering the travel, jewelry, style, arts and culture, education, and weddings beats.

What the fictional Black and White Ball documentary is likely based on is a 29-minute short documentary that the Maysles brothers made that same year about Truman Capote, titled A Visit With ...

On a brisk November night in 1966, a 20-year-old model who had recently dropped out of college went to a ball. The ball, of course, was Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball at The Plaza Hotel ...