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  1. Truman Garcia Capote [1] (/ k ə ˈ p oʊ t i / kə-POH-tee; [2] born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's ...

  2. Mar 7, 2024 · Truman Capote’s death in 1984 didn’t come as a shock, even at the age of 59. The acclaimed author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood spent the decade preceding his demise publicly ...

  3. Sep 26, 2024 · Truman Capote (born September 30, 1924, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—died August 25, 1984, Los Angeles, California) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose early writing extended the Southern Gothic tradition, though he later developed a more journalistic approach in the novel In Cold Blood (1965; film 1967).

  4. Aug 25, 2016 · In 1959, Truman Capote stumbled on a short article in The New York Times about a gruesome quadruple murder at a Kansas farm. He soon realized that it was the story he had been waiting to write...

  5. Jan 26, 2024 · Star-studded new series Feud: Capote vs The Swans looks at how author Truman Capote exposed the secrets of some of America's most elite women – and destroyed his career in the process.

  6. Jan 26, 2024 · Who Was Truman Capote? One of the 20 th century’s most well-known authors, Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood.

  7. In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel [1] by the American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, and he traveled to Kansas to write about ...

  8. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel."

  9. Jul 28, 2006 · Throughout his career, Truman Capote remained one of Americas most controversial and colorful authors, combining literary genius with a penchant for the glittering world of...

  10. Aug 5, 2024 · With characteristic vitality and grace, Capote evokes the milieu he has chosen to describe, in sentences that merge lyricism, drama, and sharp observation: A small red fox is seen at dusk stalking the lonely sea-edged sand-moors. Owls, residing in scrub-pine thickets, warn pheasants of creeping human hunters . . .