Holcomb is a small, farming community located just west of Garden City. Paroled: 7-6-59.Īs I write this review, I'm sitting about 60 miles from the Clutter house in Holcomb, Kansas. Disposition: Sent KSP 3-13-56 from Phillips Co. K.C.K.īottom Picture Smith, Perry Edward (WM) 27-59. Top Picture Hickock, Richard Eugene (WM)28 KBI 97 093 FBI 859 273 A. 'How much money did you get from the Clutters?' After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community. In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the camera. During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics. After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker.

Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school.

In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a 'non-fiction novel.' At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.

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