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TRUMAN CAPOTE
1924-1984 |
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 Born September 30 1924 in New Orleans, Truman Capote is the so-called inventor of the non-fiction novel. Author of short stories, novels, novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportages, memoirs, plays and films he is most famous for the novella
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
about a young Manhattan prostitute. His first book,
Other
Voices, Other Rooms
, had however shown a great deal of promise. He later embarked on a six-year journalistic project about the murder of a Kansas family that ended up in the non-fiction book
In Cold Blood
. The latter was a commercial success and placed him in the jet set limelight. He later published two collections
The Dogs Bark
(1973) and
Music for Chameleons
(1980). He died in Los Angeles on August 24 1984. |
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