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Truman Capote (1924–1984)

Author of In Cold Blood

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Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984 Novelist and playwright Truman Streckfus Person was born in 1924 in New Orleans to a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen. His parents divorced when he was four years old and was then raised by relatives for a few years in Monroeville. His mother was remarried to a successful businessman, moved to New York, and Truman adopted his stepfather's surname. He attended Greenwich High School and never went to college. When he was 17, Capote's formal education ended when he was employed at The New Yorker magazine. He belived he did not need to go to college to be a writer, since he was writing seriously since age 11. Capote's first novel was "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948), which told the story of a boy growing up in the Deep South. "The Grass Harp" (1951) is about a young boy and his elderly cousin discovering that some compromise is necessary for people to live together in a community and was adapted to screen in 1996. The play "The House of Flowers" (1954) is a musical set in a West Indies bordello. Capote then wrote, "Breakfast at Tiffanys" (1958), which tells the story of how Holly Golightly goes to New York seeking happiness. Capote became preoccupied with journalism and, sparked by the murder of a wealthy family in Holcomb, Kansas, began interviewing the locals to recreate the lives of the murderers and their victims. The research and writing for this novel, "In Cold Blood" (1966), took six years for him to complete. Other works of Capote's include the classic "A Christmas Memory" (1966), which is an autobiographical account of a seven-year-old boy, his cousin, and an eccentric old lady, "Music for Chameleons" (1981), which is a collection of short pieces, interviews, stories and conversations that were published in several magazines, and "One Christmas" (1982). On August 26, 1984 in Los Angeles, Truman Capote died of liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication. Published after his death were "Conversations With Capote" (1985) and "Answered Prayers: The Untitled Novel" (1986). (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from In Cold Blood… (more)
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In Cold Blood 22,907 copies, 453 reviews
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Author) 8,085 copies, 215 reviews
Breakfast at Tiffany's 2,652 copies, 77 reviews
Other Voices, Other Rooms 2,476 copies, 48 reviews
Music for Chameleons 1,880 copies, 23 reviews
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote 1,065 copies, 20 reviews
Breakfast at Tiffany's 1,033 copies, 15 reviews
Summer Crossing 1,005 copies, 37 reviews
A Christmas Memory 987 copies, 42 reviews
The Grass Harp: Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories 956 copies, 18 reviews
Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel 928 copies, 9 reviews
A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor 671 copies, 29 reviews
The Grass Harp 505 copies, 18 reviews
The Thanksgiving Visitor 298 copies, 5 reviews
A Capote Reader 287 copies, 1 review
The Dogs Bark 238 copies, 1 review
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote 224 copies, 1 review
Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote 194 copies, 2 reviews
The Early Stories of Truman Capote 178 copies, 3 reviews
A Tree of Night and Other Stories 163 copies, 2 reviews
Handcarved Coffins 123 copies, 6 reviews
One Christmas 108 copies, 8 reviews
First and Last 106 copies, 2 reviews
My Side of the Matter 94 copies, 1 review
Beat the Devil [1953 film] (Screenplay) 91 copies, 1 review
The Thanksgiving Visitor / A Christmas Memory 87 copies, 4 reviews
Breakfast at Tiffany's / Other Voices, Other Rooms 86 copies, 1 review
Selected Writings of Truman Capote 83 copies
The Innocents [1961 film] (Screenwriter) 77 copies, 2 reviews
The Muses Are Heard: An Account 73 copies, 2 reviews
Other Voices, Other Rooms / Breakfast at Tiffany's / Music for Chameleons 67 copies, 2 reviews
The Duke in His Domain (Penguin Modern) 62 copies
Children on Their Birthdays 56 copies
A House on the Heights 53 copies, 2 reviews
Ni un pelo de tonto 49 copies, 4 reviews
The Grass Harp [play] 44 copies
Marilyn Monroe: Photographs 1945-1962 (Schirmer's Visual Library) 43 copies
Great Modern Short Novels (Contributor) 39 copies, 1 review
I Remember Grandpa 34 copies
Observations 33 copies, 1 review
Miriam 27 copies
Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir: With the lost photographs of David Attie 21 copies, 1 review
Marlon Brando: Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995 (Essay) 20 copies
One Christmas [1994 TV movie] (Writer) 19 copies
House of Flowers [vocal selections] 19 copies
Local Color 19 copies
Indiscretion of an American Wife [1953 film] (Screenwriter) 17 copies
A Diamond Guitar 17 copies
Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia 16 copies
Monsieur Maléfique : Et autres nouvelles 12 copies
Alle verhalen 11 copies
A Christmas Memory [1997 TV movie] (Original book) 10 copies, 1 review
Os Cães Ladram. Pessoas Públicas E Lugares Privados - Coleção L&PM… 9 copies
Color local 9 copies, 1 review
I racconti 9 copies
The Grass Harp / Breakfast at Tiffany's 8 copies
Romanzi e racconti 8 copies
A Christmas Memory: AND One Christmas 7 copies
House of Flowers [short story] 7 copies
Nouvelles, romans, impressions de voyages, portraits, propos 6 copies
House of Flowers: Original 1954 Broadway Cast Recording (Writer) 6 copies
Un Natale e altri racconti 6 copies
Primeiros Contos de Truman Capote (Em Portuguese do Brasil) 6 copies
Los primeros cuentos / The Early Stories of Truman Capote (Spanish… 6 copies
Other Voices, Other Rooms | The Grass Harp 6 copies
20 Contos de Truman Capote (Em Portuguese do Brasil) 5 copies
Breakfast at Tiffany's: Level 3 (Penguin Active Reading (Graded… 5 copies, 1 review
Jug of Silver [short story] 5 copies
Tres contes 4 copies
Hollywood 4 copies
An Alabama Christmas 4 copies
Fra i sentieri dell'Eden (in I racconti) 4 copies
Marilyn & Co: Begegnungen mit Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth… 4 copies
Die schönsten Erzählungen 4 copies
Portraits et impressions de voyage 4 copies
Œuvres 4 copies
Cinco relatos para mujeres 3 copies
American Short Stories 3 copies
Obras Maestras del Siglo XX. A Sangre fría. 3 copies
Truman Capote auf Reisen: Reportagen 3 copies
Yachts and Things (Author) 3 copies
New York, Haïti, Tanger et autres lieux 2 copies
As Primeiras Histórias de Truman Capote 2 copies
Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory - ABC Stage 67 2 copies
Penguin Readers Level 4: Breakfast at Tiffany's (ELT Graded Reader) 2 copies
Atesteki Güve 2 copies
Integrala prozei scurte (Romanian Edition) 2 copies
Zajtrk pri Tiffanyju 2 copies
Une journée de travail 2 copies, 2 reviews
Werke: 8 Bde: 8 Bände 2 copies
Shut a Final Door 2 copies
My Side of the Matter {short story} 2 copies
Sithala le 1 copy
Gosaria Tiffany'S-En 1 copy
Kindergeburtstag 1 copy
カポーティ短篇集 (ちくま文庫) 1 copy
A Christmas Memory [1966 TV episode] (Screenwriter / Narrator) 1 copy
Portrety i obserwacje : eseje 1 copy
In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's 1 copy
A Harpa de Ervas Livro 9 1 copy
Злой дух : Рассказы 1 copy
In Cold Blood 1 copy
Close last door Zakroy poslednyuyu dver / Zakroy poslednyuyu dver (In… 1 copy
HOUSE OF FLOWERS. A MUSICAL. 1 copy
Glasba za kameleone 1 copy
Duque En Sus Dominios y Otros Relatos (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
Desde la biblioteca: Truman Capote 1 copy
Yoru no ki (夜の樹) 1 copy
GIFT OF THE MAGI, THE AND OTHER STORIES 1 copy
The Capote Tapes 1 copy
Un ricordo del nonno (in I racconti) 1 copy
A fűhárfa 1 copy
Tři povídky 1 copy
Blind items 1 copy
Eblouissement 1 copy, 1 review
Landschaften für Banditen. Großdruck. Reiseerzählungen. 1 copy
Eine Weihnachtserinnerung. Chrysanthemen sind wie Löwen : 2 Erzählungen 1 copy
Der silberne Krug. Miriam. 1 copy
Una casa a Brooklyn Heights 1 copy
Voyages en train 1 copy
Trees of the Night 1 copy
Padron Miseria (in I racconti) 1 copy
Miss Bobbit (in I racconti) 1 copy
Il falco senza testa (in I racconti) 1 copy
Un albero di notte (in I racconti) 1 copy
Breakfast at Tiffany's = Tifani de choshoku o [Japanese Edition] 1 copy
Dove comincia il mondo: [i primi racconti] 1 copy
La Mujer 1 copy, 1 review
Master Misery Complete Story in Horizon #109 (January 1949) 1 copy
One Christmas: The Thanksgiving visitor 1 copy
AFTERWORDS 1 copy
Όλα τα… 1 copy
Tiffany de chóshoku wo (ティファニーで朝食を) 1 copy
A Christmas Memory. 50th Anniversary Edition. With CD 1 copy
1962 1 copy
Morceaux choisis 1 copy
Yachten und dergleichen: Erzählungen 1 copy
Truman Capote Reads Scenes from In Cold Blood. A True Account of a… 1 copy
Morgunverður á Tiffany's 1 copy
Baum der Nacht Skizzen und Stories 1 copy
Завтрак у Тиффани. Другие голоса, другие… 1 copy
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Two Serious Ladies (Introduction, some editions) 766 copies, 10 reviews
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (Contributor) 449 copies, 4 reviews
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (Introduction) 406 copies, 5 reviews
Points of View: Revised Edition (Contributor) 400 copies, 7 reviews
The New Journalism (Contributor) 328 copies, 2 reviews
The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most… (Contributor) 313 copies
Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (Contributor) 300 copies, 4 reviews
The Best of Modern Humor (Contributor) 286 copies, 2 reviews
The Treasury of American Short Stories (Contributor) 262 copies, 1 review
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (Contributor) 257 copies, 5 reviews
Christmas Stories 240 copies, 1 review
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Contributor) 209 copies, 1 review
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (Contributor) 193 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (Contributor) 184 copies, 1 review
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contributor) 181 copies, 1 review
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 173 copies, 2 reviews
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (Contributor, some editions) 147 copies, 5 reviews
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (Contributor) 142 copies, 1 review
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review
Murder by Death [1976 film] (Actor) 112 copies, 1 review
The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 110 copies, 1 review
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (Contributor) 109 copies, 1 review
American Short Stories (Contributor, some editions) 90 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (Contributor) 90 copies, 2 reviews
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (Contributor) 75 copies
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (Contributor) 71 copies, 2 reviews
Great Esquire Fiction (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
A Treasury of Modern Mysteries Volume 2 (Contributor) 66 copies
New York (Contributor) 58 copies, 2 reviews
65 Great Tales of Horror (Contributor) 56 copies
Reading for Pleasure (Contributor) 49 copies
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (Contributor) 45 copies
The Lucifer Society (Contributor) 39 copies, 1 review
Southern Dogs and Their People (Contributor) 38 copies
Round the Christmas Fire: Festive Stories (Contributor) 32 copies
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1: From Sherlock Holmes to A… (Contributor) 31 copies, 4 reviews
Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny (Contributor) 28 copies
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (Contributor) 25 copies, 1 review
Great Short Stories of the World (Contributor) 23 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1957 v02 22 copies, 1 review
Studies in Fiction (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review
Southern Christmas Literary Classics of the Holidays (Contributor) 18 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Contributor) 13 copies, 1 review
A New Southern Harvest (Contributor) 10 copies
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen (Contributor) 9 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1947 (Contributor) 7 copies
Various Temptations (Contributor) 7 copies
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 3 (Contributor) 6 copies
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (Contributor) 5 copies
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen (Contributor) 3 copies
Racconti di cinema (Contributor) 3 copies
The Grass Harp [1995 film] (Original book) 3 copies
Wives and Lovers (Contributor) 3 copies, 1 review
American Short Stories (Contributor) 3 copies, 1 review
The Rolling Stones present Cocksucker Blues [1972 film] 2 copies
American Short Stories (Oxford Literature Resources) (Contributor) 2 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards… (Contributor) 2 copies
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenenderdig verhalen uit de moderne… (Contributor) 2 copies
Five Modern American Short Stories 2 copies
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (Contributor) 1 copy
Stories of Sudden Truth (Contributor) 1 copy
RDCBLP The Beauty | Eye of the Needle | The Best of Bombeck | Jug of… 1 copy
Belegerde stad; Rachel; Met muziek naar Moskou; Dreiging van het verleden 1 copy, 1 review
RDCBLP Reflex | A Christmas Memory | The Small Outsider 1 copy
少年の眼―大人になる前の物語 (光文社文庫) (Contributor) 1 copy
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