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Truman Capote
Author · 48 books

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.

Series

Books

Jug of Silver book cover

Jug of Silver

1949

Breakfast At Tiffanys

2025

كيف كتبت الرسالة الأولى book cover

كيف كتبت الرسالة الأولى

2011

Portraits and Observations book cover

Portraits and Observations

The Essays of Truman Capote

1995

The Grass Harp and The Tree of Night book cover

The Grass Harp and The Tree of Night

1951

A Capote Reader book cover

A Capote Reader

1987

The Grass Harp book cover

The Grass Harp

1951

Завтрак у Тиффани book cover

Завтрак у Тиффани

2001

Summer Crossing book cover

Summer Crossing

2005

A Diamond Guitar book cover

A Diamond Guitar

1950

A Christmas Memory book cover

A Christmas Memory

1956

Master Misery

1949

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote book cover

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

1993

Other Voices, Other Rooms book cover

Other Voices, Other Rooms

1948

Cuentos de Navidad book cover

Cuentos de Navidad

De los hermanos Grimm a Paul Auster

2015

In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's book cover

In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's

2022

The Dogs Bark book cover

The Dogs Bark

1973

Children On Their Birthdays book cover

Children On Their Birthdays

1976

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories book cover

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

1969

Selected Writings book cover

Selected Writings

1963

Music for Chameleons book cover

Music for Chameleons

1980

Miriam book cover

Miriam

1945

Marilyn Monroe book cover

Marilyn Monroe

Photographs 1945-1962

1994

One Christmas book cover

One Christmas

1724

The Muses Are Heard book cover

The Muses Are Heard

1946

Local Color book cover

Local Color

1991

A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor book cover

A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor

1800

Handcarved Coffins book cover

Handcarved Coffins

1980

Brooklyn book cover

Brooklyn

A Personal Memoir: With the lost photographs of David Attie by Truman Capote

2015

The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories book cover

The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

1956

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories book cover

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

1958

Yachts and Things book cover

Yachts and Things

2004

A Tree of Night and Other Stories book cover

A Tree of Night and Other Stories

1949

Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms book cover

Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms

Two Novels

2013

In Cold Blood book cover

In Cold Blood

1948

Answered Prayers book cover

Answered Prayers

1986

House of Flowers book cover

House of Flowers

1958

I Remember Grandpa book cover

I Remember Grandpa

1987

The Duke in His Domain book cover

The Duke in His Domain

1957

New York stories book cover

New York stories

2015

My Side of the Matter book cover

My Side of the Matter

1945

The Thanksgiving Visitor book cover

The Thanksgiving Visitor

1967

Too Brief a Treat book cover

Too Brief a Treat

The Letters of Truman Capote

2004

The Early Stories of Truman Capote book cover

The Early Stories of Truman Capote

2015

First and Last book cover

First and Last

1995

Cuentos inolvidables según Julio Cortázar book cover

Cuentos inolvidables según Julio Cortázar

2006

A House on the Heights book cover

A House on the Heights

2002

Marilyn Monroe book cover

Marilyn Monroe

A Beautiful Child

2001

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