


Books in series
Ring Around a Murder
1936

Murder Half Baked
1937

Bird Walking Weather
1939

The Corpse With the Purple Thighs
1939

Red is for Killing
1954

Murder Calling “50”
1942

Dead on Arrival
1954

In Cold Blood
1948
The Starting Gun
1948

Blood Will Tell
1950

The Corpse With Sticky Fingers
1952

Scared to Death
1952

Dead drunk
1954

Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand
1953

The Body in the Basket
1954

Dead Storage
1956

Evil Genius
1961
Dirty Pool
1966
Corpse Candle
1967

Another Day Another Death
1968
Killer Boy Was Here
1970
My dead body
1976

Two in the Bush
1976

Innocent Bystander
1977
The Tough Get Going
1977

Better Dead
1978

Guaranteed to Fade
1978

I Could Have Died
1979

Mugger's day
1979

Country and Fatal
1980

A Question of Quarry
1981
The Golden Creep
1982
Authors

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.