Isolation, dread, nightmares. These are just to name a few of the topics that I Truman Capote, feel that most of my stories are about. I was born in 1924 to a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen in New Orleans. My parents got divorced when I was four resulting in me living with an elderly spinster, who acts as my characters in lots of my stories. My mother married again to a wealthy businessman and then I moved to New York, where my stepfather adopted me.I started writing when I was eight. One of my best friends was Harper Lee. I portrayed Dill in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. I attended Trinity School and St. John’s Academy in New York. I worked at the New Yorker for my first job.My first novel was entitled, Other Voices, Other Rooms. It depicted a boy growing up in the South who falls into a relationship with a transvestite.In 1946, I won the O Henry award for my novel Shut a Final Door, publishing ths in many magazines. I wrote several books including, The Grass Harp, Beat the Devil, A Christmas Memory, Laura, and many more short stories, plays, and books. In Cold Blood, my bestseller, was about the murder of a wealthy family in Holcolmb, Kansas. This nonfiction novel took my six years to finish. I used neither a tape recorder nor a note pad, but instead, at the end of the day, I recorded my information from Harper Lee and other townspeople into notebooks. A Christmas Memory is the most recent autobiography I have published. In this story, a seven-year-old boy finds a real friend in an old lady. In 1981, I decided to publish one last book entitled, Music For Chameleons, which was a collection of several short stories.On August 26, 1984, Truman Persons Capote died in Los Angles, California, of liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxications. ~It is no shame to have a dirty face- - the shame comes when you keep it dirty. ~Truman Streckfus Capote (1924-1984)Jennifer WilliamsBlock 7 ...
