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    Image credit: Dunphy (l.) with Truman Capote. Uncredited photo at New York Social Diary

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    Birthdate
    1914-08-22
    Date of death
    1992-04-26
    Gender
    male
    Nationality
    USA
    Birthplace
    Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
    Place of death
    New York, New York, USA
    Places of residence
    Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Taormina, Sicily, Italy
    Brooklyn, New York, USA
    New York, New York, USA
    Sagaponack, New York, USA
    Occupations
    dancer
    playwright
    novelist
    Relationships
    Capote, Truman (lover)
    Organizations
    American Ballet Caravan
    United States Army

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    Jack Dunphy

    American novelist and playwright (1914-1992)

    Jack Dunphy

    Truman Capote and Jack Dunphy stone at Crooked Pond in the Long Pond Greenbelt in Southampton, New York

    BornJohn Paul Dunphy
    (1914-08-22)August 22, 1914
    Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
    DiedApril 26, 1992(1992-04-26) (aged 77)
    New York City, U.S.
    OccupationNovelist, playwright
    Spouse

    Joan McCracken

    (m. 1939; div. 1948)​
    PartnerTruman Capote (1948–1975)

    John Paul Dunphy (August 22, 1914 – April 26, 1992)[1] was an American novelist and playwright. He was widely known as the partner of author Truman Capote.

    Life and career

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    Dunphy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey,[2] and was raised in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His sister was Gloria Dunphy. He 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.[2]

    He married Joan McCracken, another Philadelphia dancer. They later appeared in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma! in 1943, in which McCracken played Sylvie and Dunphy danced as one of the cowboys. Dunphy also d