• Truman Capote was an American author, playwright, critic and essayist. The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is the largest cash prize for literary criticism in the English language ($50,000)

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth Name: Truman Streckfus Persons
  2. Born: September 30, 192
  3. Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana
  4. Father: Archelaus Persons
  5. Step-Father: Joseph Capote
  6. Mother: Lillie Mae Faulk Persons
  7. Died August 25, 1984
  8. Most famous works: In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffanys
  9. Known for his extravagant, celebrated, and outrageous lifestyle
  10. Lifelong friend of Harper Lee
  11. Inspiration for "Dill" in Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
  12. Credited With Inventing the True Crime Genre

• Early Life

  Capote's parents divorced when he was four years old. Until the age of nine, he lived in Monroeville, Alabama with his mother's relatives. In Monroeville, he began a friendship with author Harper Lee that would last his entire life.

  At the age of ten, Capote submitted his first short story to The Mobile Press Register. By the age of eleven he was actively writing at least three hours a day.

• Landmark Works

  1. Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
  2. Breakfast At Tiffany's (1958)
  3. A Christmas Memory (1958)

• In Cold Blood

  Truman Capote's most famous work was inspired by a short newspaper article of a brutal murder in rural Kansas. Assisted in his research by Harper Lee, Capote spent more than four years working on the book. The book was serialized in The New Yorker in (1965) and releases in hardcover in (1966). What Capote called "a non-fiction novel" is considered to be the first of the "true crime" genre.

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