Truman Capote-Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics, including the novel Breakfast at Tiffanys (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he described as a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and television dramas were produced from Capote's novels, stories and screenplays. He was a lonely child who, before entering school, learned to read and write by himself. He moved to New York Cit... y in 1933 to live with Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman, his mother and her new husband. Mr. Capote adopted Truman, changing his last name legally to Capote and enrolling him in private school. Truman Capote started his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker after graduating from high school in 1942. He also started his career as a writer during this time, publishing many short stories that introduced him to a literary critical circle. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, remained for nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and became controversial because of Capote's photograph used to promote the novel, pose seductively and look into the camera. In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific in both fiction and non-fiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published by Random House in book form in 1966, became a worldwide success, bringing much praise to Capote from the literary community. He rarely published after this success and suffered from addiction to alcohol. He died at the age of 59 in 1984.READ MORE