Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons was born in New Orleans in 1924. As a child he was left by his mother with cousins in Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee was his neighbour; he later took the name of his stepfather, Joe Capote. He left school at seventeen and joined the New Yorker as a messenger. A novelist and reporter, he became a figure of New York society, which closed its doors to him after the publication in 1975 of a chapter in which he put it on stage. He never finished the novel of which this chapter was part, and died in Los Angeles in 1984.

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• NovelIn Cold BloodTruman Capote · 1966Literature