With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.

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 At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons 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 At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother s relatives in Monroeville, Alabama He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban born businessman Mr Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at
The New Yorker During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics His first novel,
Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the camera.In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non fiction His masterpiece,
In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction He died in 1984 at age 59
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