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Latest revision as of 04:22, 5 March 2018

Capote by Jack Mitchell, 1980
Source: Wikipedia.org.

Biography

1924-1984

Also known as Truman Streckfus Persons

American author

At the age of six Capote's parents abandoned him to the care of four elderly, unmarried maternal cousins, three sisters and a brother, living together. He was a high-school dropout, apprenticed as a fortune teller, and started his literary career as an office boy at the offices of the New Yorker magazine.

His books include In Cold Blood, A Christmas Memory and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

References

Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, 1993-97 Plimpton, George. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. (New York: Nan A. Talese; Doubleday, 1997) "Truman Capote." [Includes portrait]. Available at: www.gatewayno.com/Culture/Capote.html