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==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/truman-capote-9237547</ref>  Like many perverse writers, he was abandoned by his mother, wrote about himself obsessively, and began working for the ''New Yorker'' at a young age.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/truman-capote-about-the-author/58/</ref>  In Monroeville, Alabama, he befriended [[Harper Lee]].<ref>http://www.southernliterarytrail.org/monroeville.html</ref>  His mother took him in again, married to the Cuban Joe Capote, but he was an embezzler, was fired, and was imprisoned, and Capote's mother killed herself.<ref>http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1115</ref>  He had been writing for a while, and published many dark stories about people with physical and mental disorders, but became successful in the late '50s with a more mature ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', about a Manhattan playgirl, and ''Cold Blood'', about a murder in Kansas.<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Capote-Truman.html</ref>  He was briefly a television celebrity, but was ostracized by his friends for his satirizing them in an unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'', and died August 25, 1984, in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>"Capote, Truman."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>

Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/truman-capote-9237547</ref>  Like many perverse writers, he was abandoned by his mother, wrote about himself obsessively, and began working for the ''New Yorker'' at a young age.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/truman-capote-about-the-author/58/</ref>  In Monroeville, Alabama, he befriended [[Harper Lee]].<ref>http://www.southernliterarytrail.org/monroeville.html</ref>  His mother took him in again, married to the Cuban Joe Capote, but he was an embezzler, was fired, and was imprisoned, and Capote's mother killed herself.<ref>http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1115</ref>  He had been writing for a while, and published many dark stories about people with physical and mental disorders, but became successful in the late '50s with a more mature ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', about a Manhattan playgirl, and ''Cold Blood'', about a murder in Kansas.<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Capote-Truman.html</ref>  He was briefly a television celebrity, but was ostracized by his friends for his satirizing them in an unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'', and died August 25, 1984, in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>"Capote, Truman."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>

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