Some time in the 1940s, Capote wrote a novel set in New York City about the summer romance of a socialite and a parking lot attendant. Capote later claimed to have destroyed the manuscript of this novel; but 20 years after his death, in 2004, it came to light that the manuscript had been retrieved from the trash back in 1950 by a house sitter at an apartment formerly occupied by Capote.The details of the emergence of this manuscript have been recounted by Capote's executor, Alan U. Schwartz, in the afterword to the novel's publication. The novel was published in 2006 by Random House under the title Summer Crossing.
