Truman Capote

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)

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.

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

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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• September 30, 1924: Born

• 1941-1943: Works for The New Yorker

• 1943: Writes his first novel, Summer Crossing

• 1963: Goes to Kansas with childhood friend Harper Lee to research his book, In Cold Blood

• 1966: Hosts legendary masked ball, called "The Black & White Ball"

• 1967: Wins an Emmy for ABC Stage 67

• August 25, 1984: Died

• 1948 Other Voices, Other Rooms

• 1949 A Tree of Night and Other Stories

• 1951 The Grass Harp (Novel)

• 1952 The Grass Harp (Play)

• 1953 Beat the Devil

• 1954 House of Flowers

• 1956 The Muses Are Heard

• 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's (Novel)

• 1960 The Innocents

• 1963 Selected Writings of Truman Capote

• 1966 In Cold Blood ("Nonfiction Novel")

• 1968 The Thanksgiving Visitor

• 1973 The Dogs Bark

• 1980 Music for Chameleons

• 1983 One Christmas

• 1987 Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel