WRITER

Truman Capote

1924 - 1984

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Truman Garcia Capote ( kə-POH-tee; 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, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Truman Capote has received more than 13,173,051 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Truman Capote is the 689th most popular writer (down from 349th in 2019), the 737th most popular biography from United States (down from 337th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Writer.

Truman Capote is most famous for his novel, In Cold Blood, which was published in 1966. The book is based on the murder of a family in Kansas in 1959.

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  • 13M

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  • 69.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Truman Capote ranks 689 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph of Anchieta, Jacinto Benavente, Claudian, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Kang Youwei, and Jean Froissart. After him are Bettina von Arnim, Carlos Fuentes, Francesca da Rimini, Sri Chinmoy, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Multatuli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Truman Capote ranks 35. Before him are Mário Soares, Sidney Lumet, Kōbō Abe, Black Dahlia, Lee Marvin, and Henry Mancini. After him are Lys Assia, Amílcar Cabral, Christopher Tolkien, Dmitry Yazov, Antony Hewish, and Jin Yong. Among people deceased in 1984, Truman Capote ranks 24. Before him are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Karl Wolff, Irwin Shaw, Sam Peckinpah, Ahmed Sékou Touré, and Anna Anderson. After him are Oleg Antonov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Marvin Gaye, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Dmitry Ustinov, and Stanley Milgram.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Truman Capote ranks 737 out of 20,380. Before him are Kamehameha I (1758), Doris Day (1922), Henry Mancini (1924), Christopher Lambert (1957), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), and Thorstein Veblen (1857). After him are Walter Matthau (1920), Alan Arkin (1934), Douglas Osheroff (1945), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Ron Perlman (1950), and John Carpenter (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Truman Capote ranks 71. Before him are Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Harper Lee (1926), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Washington Irving (1783), Irwin Shaw (1913), and H. L. Mencken (1880). After him are Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867), Jack Vance (1916), Louise Hay (1926), Dalton Trumbo (1905), William Saroyan (1908), and Robert E. Howard (1906).

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