1. Truman Capote - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia biography, features information on people and places that were significant to the author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote

Truman Capote From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Truman Capote Truman Capote, as photographed by Roger Higgins in 1959 Born September 30 New Orleans, Louisiana Died August 25 Los Angeles, California Occupation novelist, playwright, story writer Writing period Literary movement Southern Gothic Influences William Faulkner Edgar Allan Poe James Agee E.M. Forster ... Proust Influenced Joseph Wambaugh Harper Lee John Updike Gore Vidal ... John O'Hara Truman Capote pronounced /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti/ 30 September 25 August ) was an American writer whose stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's ) and In Cold Blood ), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. Contents Early life Short fiction Other Voices, Other Rooms Friendship with Harper Lee ... edit Early life Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans, Louisiana , the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae ( n©e Faulk) and Archelaus Persons, who was a salesman.

2. Truman Capote Truman Capote, b. New Orleans, La., Sept. 30, 1924, d. Aug. 25, 1984, was a Southern Gothic novelist, journalist, and celebrated manabout-town. http://www.levity.com/corduroy/capote.htm

Truman Capote I truthfully feel none of us have anyone to blame for whatever we have done with our own personal lives. It has been proven that at the age of 7 most of us have reached the age of reason which means we do , at this age, we all have weaknesses. In your case I don't know what your weakness is but I do feel IT IS NO SHAME TO HAVE A DIRTY FACE THE SHAME COMES WHEN YOU KEEP IT DIRTY. from In Cold Blood Truman Capote , b. New Orleans, La., Sept. 30, 1924, d. Aug. 25, 1984, was a Southern Gothic novelist, journalist, and celebrated man-about-town. He was widely hailed as a stylist after publication of his earliest writings. These include his novel of alienated youth, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), the Gothic short stories in A Tree of Night (1949), and the lighter novel The Grass Harp (1951; play, 1952). The novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958; film, 1961) introduced the charming, hedonistic Holly Golightly as a heroine. Childhood reflections formed the basis of two short stories that were adapted for television: "A Christmas Memory" (1956) and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" (1968). Capote's so-called nonfiction novel In Cold Blood (1966; film, 1967) was based on a 6-year study of the murder of a rural Kansas family by two young drifters. It created a sensation and enhanced its author's reputation. Capote wrote about the jet set in

3. Author Profile: Truman Capote Truman Capote, born in New Orleans, LA., September 30, 1924, and died on August 25, 1984, was a Southern Gothic novelist, journalist, and celebrated http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-capote-truman.asp

var gDcsId = "dcskti1vc10000chxa0maatv9_2u3o"; Truman Capote BIO - Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 30, 1924. - His full name was Truman Streckfus Persons. - In 1931 his parents divorced and a year later his mother remarried to Joseph Garcia Capote. - He changed his name to Truman Garcia Capote in 1935. - From 1941-1944 Capote worked as a copyboy at The New Yorker, until he was fired for angering Robert Frost at his reading. - In 1945 "Miriam" and "The Jug of the Silver" was published in Mademoiselle and "A Tree of Night" was published in Harper's Bazaar. - A TREE OF NIGHT was published in 1949. - BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S was published in 1958. - Capote started to investigate the Clutters' murder case (the case that inspired his book IN COLD BLOOD). - IN COLD BLOOD was published in 1966 and in 1967 the movie version of "In Cold Blood" was released.

4. Truman Capote -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Truman Capote American novelist, shortstory writer, and playwright. His early writing extended the Southern http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9020165/Truman-Capote

document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Browse Shop Log In Search Site: Truman Capote American author original name Truman Streckfus Persons Main born Sept. 30, 1924, New Orleans, La., U.S. died Aug. 25, 1984, Los Angeles, Calif. American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. His early writing extended the Southern Gothic tradition, but he later developed a more journalistic approach in the novel In Cold Blood (1965), which remains his best-known work. Capote drew on his childhood experiences for many of his early works of fiction. Having abandoned further schooling, he achieved early literary recognition in 1945 when his haunting short story Mademoiselle magazine; it won the O. Henry Memorial Award the following year, the first of four such awards Capote was to receive. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms A Tree of Night (1949). The quasi-autobiographical novel The Grass Harp (1958; filmed 1961), is a novella about a young, fey Manhattan playgirl. In Cold Blood

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This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Truman Capote AKA Truman Streckfus Persons Born: 30-Sep Birthplace: New Orleans, LA Died: 25-Aug Location of death: Los Angeles, CA Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Gay Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Flamboyant author of In Cold Blood Wrote In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's Father: Archulus Persons Mother: Lillie Mae Faulk (d. 1954, suicide) Father: Joseph Garcia Capote (stepfather) High School: Trinity School, New York City, NY The New Yorker copy boy Smithers Addiction Treatment Center Silver Hill Hospital Driving While Intoxicated Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Fact Crime, for In Cold Blood Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Motion Picture, for The Innocents Adopted Tonsillectomy Autopsy Risk Factors: Epilepsy Cocaine Alcoholism Depression FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Murder by Death (23-Jun-1976) Author of books: Other Voices, Other Rooms , novel) A Tree of Night and Other Stories , short stories) Local Color , articles) The Grass Harp , novel) The Muses Are Heard , articles) Breakfast at Tiffany's , novel) Selected Writings , articles) A Christmas Memory , short stories) In Cold Blood , novel) The Thanksgiving Visitor , novel) The Dogs Bark , articles) Music for Chameleons , articles) Do you know something we don't?

6. Biographical Sketch Of Truman Capote Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons, on Sept. 30, 1924, in New Orleans, La. Later, his mother married Joseph Garcia Capote, a businessman in the http://library.thinkquest.org/2847/authors/capote.htm

Truman Capote (1924-1984) Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons, on Sept. 30, 1924, in New Orleans, La. Later, his mother married Joseph Garcia Capote, a businessman in the East. At about age 11, Truman began attending school therefirst in New York City and later in Greenwich, Conn. Truman was not very interested in school, but he did like to write. After graduating at 17, he went to New Orleans, then to New York City to write and work. In 1945 his stories began to appear in magazines. They won him two prizes. His first books were `Other Voices, Other Rooms' (published in 1948), a novel about an adolescent boy in a run- down Southern mansion, and `A Tree of Night' (1949), a collection of stories. Capote rewrote his fantasy `The Grass Harp' (1951) as a play (1952). He also wrote the book and lyrics for a musical comedy, `House of Flowers' (1954). Capote's short novel `Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1958), was received extremely well, and made into a movie in 1961. In 1966 a television presentation of his short story "A Christmas Memory" won a Peabody award. Capote became interested in the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family. For several years he dug up the facts, talking to everyone connected with the killing. The result was `In Cold Blood' (1966), which was based on fact, but read like suspense fiction and became immensely popular. It was produced as a movie (1967). `Then It All Came Down' (1976) also deals with crime and criminal justice. Capote also produced `Music for Chameleons' (1980), a mixed collection of short stories, essays, and journalistic reporting.

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8. A Christmas Memory By Truman Capote Truman Capote s short story A Christmas Memory full text in html. http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/capotechristmas.html

Short Story Classics Truman Capote A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town. A great black stove is its main feature; but there is also a big round table and a fireplace with two rocking chairs placed in front of it. Just today the fireplace commenced its seasonal roar. "I knew it before I got out of bed," she says, turning away from the window with a purposeful excitement in her eyes. "The courthouse bell sounded so cold and clear. And there were no birds singing; they've gone to warmer country, yes indeed. Oh, Buddy, stop stuffing biscuit and fetch our buggy. Help me find my hat. We've thirty cakes to bake." It's always the same: a morning arrives in November, and my friend, as though officially inaugurating the Christmas time of year that exhilarates her imagination and fuels the blaze of her heart, announces: "It's fruitcake weather! Fetch our buggy. Help me find my hat." The hat is found, a straw cartwheel corsaged with velvet roses out-of-doors has faded: it once belonged to a more fashionable relative. Together, we guide our buggy, a dilapidated baby carriage, out to the garden and into a grove of pecan trees. The buggy is mine; that is, it was bought for me when I was born. It is made of wicker, rather unraveled, and the wheels wobble like a drunkard's legs. But it is a faithful object; springtimes, we take it to the woods and fill it with flowers, herbs, wild fern for our porch pots; in the summer, we pile it with picnic paraphernalia and sugar-cane fishing poles and roll it down to the edge of a creek; it has its winter uses, too: as a truck for hauling firewood from the yard to the kitchen, as a warm bed for Queenie, our tough little orange and white rat terrier who has survived distemper and two rattlesnake bites. Queenie is trotting beside it now.

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Truman Capote (1924-1984) Truman Capote Truman Capote was born Truman Steckfus Persons in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and Archulus ("Arch") Persons, a dissolute salesman. Capote's early life was marked by instability and poverty. When Faulk and Persons separated in 1928, he was left to be raised by relatives in Monroeville, Alabama, where he began what would become a lifelong friendship with Harper Lee, later the author of the renowned novel To Kill A Mockingbird . An unusual and observant child, Truman was determined to become a writer. He taught himself to read at age four and by age eight was "practicing" at writing in daily sessions. The details of the rural South, its oppressive poverty and wise, headstrong characters, impressed on the young Capote's imagination. He later drew on his memories of Alabama for some of his most famous writing. In 1933, Lillie Mae, who then called herself Nina, remarried to a successful Cuban businessman, Joe Capote. Truman soon joined the couple in New York City, where he adopted his stepfather's surname and began an uneven career as a student in both private and public high schools in New York and Connecticut. While Capote was intelligent and highly focused on writing, he was uninterested in academics, and dropped out of his fourth year of high school when offered a 2-year contract position as a copy boy at the

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Pajiba Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People home film television books ... search The Pals Go Fug Yourself The Impulsive Buy Liberal Avenger White Trash Mom ... *Oscar Nomination - Best Picture* Capote / Jeremy C. Fox , and looking for a subject that would enable him to write a lengthy piece of literary nonfiction, seized upon a brief notice of the killings that was buried on page 39 of the November 16 New York Times . He showed the article to William Shawn, then editor of The New Yorker To Kill a Mockingbird In Cold Blood , which would become his most acclaimed book and earn him a small fortune but, arguably, would also be the beginning of his personal and professional decline. Capote was quid pro quo , manipulating Dewey into sharing details about the investigation. Despite the care Capote takes to conceal himself, there are two people who see right through him but love him anyway: his childhood friend Lee (Catherine Keener), who, in writing Mockingbird In Cold Blood In Cold Blood In Cold Blood In Cold Blood The Silence of the Lambs exaggerate Jeremy C. Fox is the managing editor of Pajiba and a member of the Online Film Critics Society. You may email him at jeremycfox[at]gmail.com.

12. EReader.com: Author: Truman Capote Truman Capote was born in New Orleans as the son of a salesman and a 16year-old beauty queen. Capote s parents divorced when he was four. http://www.ereader.com/author/detail/3723

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17. TRUMAN CAPOTE Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1924, and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction short stories, novels and novellas, http://www.speakingofstories.org/Author Bios/truman_capote.htm

Speaking of Stories transforming stories from the page to the stage Who We Are Next Performance Performances Tickets ... Home TRUMAN CAPOTE Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1924, and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films. He was widely hailed as a stylist after publication of his earliest writings. These include his novel of alienated youth, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and the lighter novel The Grass Harp (1951; play, 1952). Capote also earned acknowledgment when his short story A Christmas Memory (1956) was turned into a TV movie. A Christmas Memory is considered by many, a holiday tradition, ranking with It’s A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story Capote's so-called nonfiction novel In Cold Blood (1966; film, 1967) was based on a 6-year study of the murder of a rural Kansas family by two young drifters. It created a sensation and enhanced its author's reputation. In the small mid-western town of Holcomb Kansas , a family is murdered. Capote saw the write-up in the paper and decided to visit the town and find out what happened. He began his research before the murderers were captured. He was there when they were brought in to jail. He lived in the town; he gained the trust of the townspeople and the murderers. At least enough trust so that they spoke candidly in front of him (he had a little help from his childhood friend, Harper Lee [author of To Kill a Mockingbird], who also interviews townspeople).

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Truman Capote From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Truman Capote , born Truman Streckfus Persons 30 September 25 August ), was an American writer, whose works include Breakfast at Tiffany's with the character Holly Golightly. edit Sourced Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix. Quoted in London Review of Books 6 January Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Quoted in The Observer But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes Character Randolf in Other Voices, Other Rooms edit Unsourced "In California, you lose a point off your IQ every year." "The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it." "As everyone knows, a fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room." "Good taste is the death of art."

19. Truman Capote Biographical information about capote. Also a link to capote s childhood friend, Harper Lee. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Truman Capote (1924-1984) - original name Truman Streckfus Persons American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Capote gained international fame with his "nonfiction novel" IN COLD BLOOD (1966), an account of a real life crime in which an entire family was murdered by two sociopaths. The Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama area provided the setting for much of Capote's fiction. "Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans - in fact, few Kansans - had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." (from In Cold Blood Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, as the son of a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen, Lillie Mae Faulk. His father, Archulus "Arch" Persons, worked as a clerk for a steamboat company. Persons never stuck at any job for long, and was always leaving home in search for new opportunities. The unhappy marriage gradually disintegrated. When Capote was four, his parents eventually divorced. The young Truman was brought up in Monroeville, Alabama. He lived some years with his relatives, one of whom became the model for the loving, elderly spinster of the author's novels, stories, and plays. "Her face is remarkable - not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind," described Capote in A CHRISTMAS MEMORY (1966) his distant relative Sook, Nanny Rumbley Faulk. Sook was sixty-something, "small and sprightly, like a bantam hen..." Capote's mother, Lillie Mae, wrote letters and telephoned to her son, often crying that she had no money and no husband.

20. American Masters . Truman Capote | PBS Throughout his career, truman capote remained one of America s most controversial and colorful authors, combining literary genius with a penchant for the http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."Capote T hroughout his career, Truman Capote remained one of America's most controversial and colorful authors, combining literary genius with a penchant for the glittering world of high society. Though he wrote only a handful of books, his prose styling was impeccable, and his insight into the psychology of human desire was extraordinary. His flamboyant and well-documented lifestyle has often overshadowed his gifts as a writer, but over time Capote's work will outlive the celebrity. Born in New Orleans in 1924, Capote was abandoned by his mother and raised by his elderly aunts and cousins in Monroeville, Alabama. As a child he lived a solitary and lonely existence, turning to writing for solace. Of his early days Capote related, "I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about eleven. I say seriously in the sense that like other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano or whatever, I used to go home from school every day and I would write for about three hours. I was obsessed by it." In his mid-teens, Capote was sent to New York to live with his mother and her new husband. Disoriented by life in the city, he dropped out of school, and at age seventeen, got a job with THE NEW YORKER magazine. Within a few years he was writing regularly for an assortment of publications. One of his stories, "Miriam," attracted the attention of publisher Bennett Cerf, who signed the young writer to a contract with Random House. Capote's first book, OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS, was published in 1948. OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS received instant notoriety for its fine prose, its frank discussion of homosexual themes, and, perhaps most of all, for its erotically suggestive cover photograph of Capote himself.

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