Facts on Truman Capote

Truman Capote was born in 1924 in New Orleans. AsBlood, which was based on the murder of the
a child he was raised by his cousins and auntsClutters family in Kansas. Capote spent 6 years in
because his mother had abandoned him.Kansas so that he could understand the atmosphere
According to him, he was obsessed with writing rightin Kansas after this incident and the impact of this
from the age of eleven. He would return from schoolincident on the lives of the people there. The book
and write for three hours every day. This was hisbecame very famous and sold millions of copies
way of escaping from his loneliness. When heCapote began to write a book based on the lives of
became a teenager, he was sent to New York tohis friends. After a part of this book was published,
live with his mother and her new husband.there was a scandal among his friends resulting in
His first novel was Other voices, Other rooms inmost of his friends abandoning him. This shocked him
which one can find traces of his own life. He went togreatly and Capote turned to alcohol and drugs and
write another novel called Breakfast at Tiffany's,after that his writing career was almost over as he
which was later turned into a movie. Apart fromcould not write anything the same way. He died in
these, he also wrote a non fiction book called In Cold1984 when he was just fifty nine.