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Biography
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: [1]
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- Adoption Celebrities
- Adopted Persons
- European
- USA
- 20th Century
- Literature
- Sexuality: Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transsexuals
- Addiction or Abuse (drugs, Alcohol or Gambling)
- School-age Years, Adolescence
- Child Abandoned or Rejected by Birth Parent(s)
- Cousins, Parents' Cousins
- Both Parents Unable or Unwilling to Care for Child