Truman Capote

Truman Capote
Capote in 1980 by Jack Mitchell
Born	Truman Streckfus Persons (1924-09-30)September 30, 1924 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died	August 25, 1984(1984-08-25) (aged 59) Los Angeles, California
Resting place	Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Other names	Truman Garcia Capote
Education	Greenwich High School Dwight School
Occupations	Novelist playwright screenwriter actor
Years active	1942–1984
Notable work	Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) In Cold Blood (1966)
Movement	Southern Gothic True crime
Partner	Jack Dunphy (1948–1975)
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Truman Garcia Capote^[1] (/kəˈpoʊti/ kə-POH-tee;^[2] born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe.^[3] His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.

Capote had a troubled childhood caused by his parents' divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple moves. He was planning to become a writer by the time he was eight years old,^[4] and he honed his writing ability throughout his childhood. He began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of "Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and resulted in a contract to write the novel Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He achieved widespread acclaim with Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)—a novella about a fictional New York café society girl named Holly Golightly, and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966)—a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. Capote spent six years writing the latter, aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).^[5]