1. John Paul Dunphy was an American novelist and playwright.
13 Facts About Jack Dunphy
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Jack Dunphy was widely known as the partner of author Truman Capote.
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Jack Dunphy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was raised in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Jack Dunphy trained in ballet under Catherine Littlefield, danced at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and toured with the George Balanchine company in South America in 1941.
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Jack Dunphy danced in The Prodigal Son, a ballet performed on Broadway in conjunction with The Pirates of Penzance in 1942.
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Jack Dunphy enlisted in the US Army in January 1944 during World War II.
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When he met author Truman Capote in 1948, Jack Dunphy had written John Fury, a well-received novel, and was just getting over a painful divorce from McCracken.
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Ten years older than Capote, Jack Dunphy was in many ways Capote's opposite, as solitary as Capote was exuberantly social.
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In 1987, Jack Dunphy published a novel titled Dear Genius: My Life with Truman Capote, which details their relationship.
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In 1992, Jack Dunphy died of cancer in New York at age 77.
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Jack Dunphy is portrayed by Bruce Greenwood in the 2005 film Capote and by John Benjamin Hickey in the 2006 film Infamous.
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Jack Dunphy is portrayed by Joe Mantello in the FX television series Feud: Capote vs The Swans.
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Jack Dunphy wrote Dear Genius: A Memoir of My Life with Truman Capote, published by McGraw-Hill in 1987.