WRITER

Truman Capote

1924 - 1984

Truman Capote

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, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Truman Capote has received more than 12,638,413 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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Notable Works

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1958

Other Voices, Other Rooms

1948

In Cold Blood

History

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1965

The grass harp

1951

Music for Chameleons

1979

Other voices, other rooms

Fiction, Boys, Death

Other Voices, Other Rooms is a 1948 novel by Truman Capote. It is written in the Southern Gothic style and is notable for its atmosphere of isolation and decadence. Other Voices, Other Rooms is significant because it is both Capote's first published novel and semi-autobiographical.

1877

Music for chameleons

Gay men's writings, American, American literature, Literatura estadounidense

1979

The Grass Harp

Fiction, Fiction in English, Boys

Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter.

1951

In Cold Blood

True, Crime, Murder

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

1709

Breakfast at Tiffany's

American Short stories, Manners and customs, Fiction

Published with three short stories this novella cemented Capote’s position at the forefront of American literature. It is the story of a friendship between New York neighbours, good time girl Holly Golightly and the unnamed male narrator.

1956

One Christmas

Fiction, Boys, Thanksgiving Day

One unforgettable Christmas, young Truman Capote is sent from his childhood home and his beloved cousin Miss Sook to New Orleans, to a father he's never met. Far from the warmth and familiarity of small town dreams and family traditions, Truman learns the painful truths about his father, about Santa Claus, and about love lost and found.

1956