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Truman Capote
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The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.
— In Cold Blood (1965)
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
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Lived 1924–1984, aged 60United States
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Updated 2026-06-21
He wrote the party-girl novella that became a film standard, then spent six years reconstructing a Kansas farmhouse murder into a book that bent journalism into literature.
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Truman Streckfus Persons was born September 30, 1924, into a childhood broken by divorce and his mother's long absence, moving frequently and deciding by age eight that he would write. He sharpened the craft early, breaking through professionally with the short story "Miriam" in 1945, which caught the eye of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and led to a contract for his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, in 1948. Widespread acclaim arrived with Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1958, the novella about fictional café society girl Holly Golightly. Then came In Cold Blood in 1966, a true crime bo…
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Truman Capote
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I ought at least to have made corporal. But I never did. Know why? Because the sergeant we had was tough. Because I wouldn't roll over. Jesus, I hate that stuff. I can't stand it.
— Perry Smith, part 2
Truman Capote
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She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part [...]?
— Part 3
Truman Capote
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Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
— On Dick, part 3
Truman Capote
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
— In Cold Blood (1965)
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