Den Harrow, Ph.D., is a literary historian and independent scholar specializing in the lives and works of Truman Capote and Harper Lee.
Over the past twelve years, he has conducted extensive archival research at the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Columbia University, Ohio State University, Emory University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He has authored more than sixteen scholarly articles on Capote and Harper Lee in academic journals, and has presented his work at conferences and symposia in the United States.
Den Harrow is also a playwright. His biographical chamber play Exit Smiling, about the friendship and rupture between Truman Capote and Babe Paley, received its staged reading at the Fresh Fruit Festival, Wild Project Stage, New York, May 3, 2026, directed by Yuri Mamin.
“The author manages to rehabilitate a scandalous writer — one subjected to ostracism — and does so warmly, and convincingly. There is something here to play. There is something here to hold an audience.”
— Yuri Mamin, Director