Truman
Capote was born in New Orleans in
1924. When he was a child his family moved to Alabama. He moved to
New York during the Second
World War. He obtained a staff job at the New
Yorker but they refused to publish any of his short stories.
However, they were accepted by other magazines and in 1946 his short
story Miriam, won the O. Henry
Memorial Award.
Capote
published his first novel, Other Voices,
Other Rooms in 1948. This was followed by A
Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), Local
Color (1953), The Grass Harp
(1951) and The Muses Are Heard
(1956). He had great success with his next novel, Breakfast
at Tiffany's (1958) that was turned into a popular feature
film.
Other
books by Capote included In Cold Blood
(1966), a book about a murder in Kansas that was only turned into
a successful film, A Christmas Memory
(1966), The Dogs Bark (1973) and
Music for Chameleons (1981).
Truman
Capote died in 1984.
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