According to Clarke, the photo created an "uproar" and gave Capote "not only the literary, but also the public personality he had always wanted." The photo made a huge impression on the 20-year-old Andy Warhol, who often talked about the picture and wrote fan letters to Capote. Truman claimed that the camera had caught him off guard, but in fact he had posed himself and was responsible for both the picture and the publicity." Much of the early attention to Capote centered on different interpretations of this photograph, which was viewed as a suggestive pose by some. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988), wrote, "The famous photograph: Harold Halma’s picture on the dustjacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) caused as much comment and controversy as the prose inside. A 1947 Harold Halma photograph used to promote the book showed a reclining Capote gazing fiercely into the camera. The promotion and controversy surrounding this novel catapulted Capote to fame. Other Voices, Other Rooms made The New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for nine weeks, selling more than 26,000 copies.
This much-discussed 1947 Harold Halma photo on the back of Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) was a key factor in Capote’s rise to fame during the 1940s. "I am Joel, we are the same people." So, in a sense, had Truman rejoiced when he made peace with his own identity. Yet acceptance is not a surrender it is a liberation. Finally, when he goes to join the queer lady in the window, Joel accepts his destiny, which is to be homosexual, to always hear other voices and live in other rooms.
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