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'''Truman Capote''' (1924-1984) was an American author. His works include. ''Other Voices, Other Rooms'' (1948), ''The Glass Harp'' (1951), ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1958), and ''In Cold Blood'' (1966).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1993.</ref> | '''Truman Capote''' (1924-1984) was an American author. His works include. ''Other Voices, Other Rooms'' (1948), ''The Glass Harp'' (1951), ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1958), and ''In Cold Blood'' (1966).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1993.</ref> | ||
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| + | 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> | ||
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Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American author. His works include. Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), The Glass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), and In Cold Blood (1966).[1]
Life and Works
Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] 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.[3] In Monroeville, Alabama, he befriended Harper Lee.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
References
- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall: New York, 1993.
- ↑ http://www.biography.com/people/truman-capote-9237547
- ↑ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/truman-capote-about-the-author/58/
- ↑ http://www.southernliterarytrail.org/monroeville.html
- ↑ http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1115
- ↑ http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Capote-Truman.html
- ↑ "Capote, Truman." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.