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Truman Capote

American author (1924-1984)

  • Audience130
  • Fame74.0
  • Momentum5.2
Source-basedStable
130 youtube followers
  • Audience130
  • Fame74.0
  • Momentum5.2
  • Writers rank#233
  • Wikipedia155K
Lived 1924–1984, aged 60United States
United StatesUnited StatesWritersWriter / Author
  • Wikipedia
    78 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1924–1984
    Aged 60
  • Known for
    Breakfast at Tiffany's
    1961
Summary
Updated 2026-08-28

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.

Biography

About

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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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Truman Capote

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
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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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Fame
Stable
74.0
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum5.2
Historical29.6
Now attention24.9
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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Category rank
#233
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