| Truman Capote was born in 1924 in New Orleans. As | | | | Blood, which was based on the murder of the |
| a child he was raised by his cousins and aunts | | | | Clutters 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 right | | | | in Kansas after this incident and the impact of this |
| from the age of eleven. He would return from school | | | | incident on the lives of the people there. The book |
| and write for three hours every day. This was his | | | | became very famous and sold millions of copies |
| way of escaping from his loneliness. When he | | | | Capote began to write a book based on the lives of |
| became a teenager, he was sent to New York to | | | | his 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 in | | | | most of his friends abandoning him. This shocked him |
| which one can find traces of his own life. He went to | | | | greatly 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 from | | | | could not write anything the same way. He died in |
| these, he also wrote a non fiction book called In Cold | | | | 1984 when he was just fifty nine. |