Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece ofjournalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-wordarticle in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring andwriting the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the twoyoung killers who brutally murdered them. In Cold Blood createda genre of novelistic non-fiction and made Capote's name with itsunflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil. About The Author Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised invarious parts of the south, his family spending winters in New Orleansand summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he hadalready started writing short stories, some of which were published. Heleft school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the NewYorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following hisspell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farmwhere he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, atone time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, andtravelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highlypraised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories(1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's(1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became thecentre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music forChameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of whichare published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece ofjournalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-wordarticle in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring andwriting the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the twoyoung killers who brutally murdered them. In Cold Blood createda genre of novelistic non-fiction and made Capote's name with itsunflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil. About The Author Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised invarious parts of the south, his family spending winters in New Orleansand summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he hadalready started writing short stories, some of which were published. Heleft school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the NewYorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following hisspell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farmwhere he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, atone time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, andtravelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highlypraised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories(1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's(1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became thecentre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music forChameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of whichare published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.
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Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece ofjournalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-wordarticle in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring andwriting the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the twoyoung killers who brutally murdered them. In Cold Blood createda genre of novelistic non-fiction and made Capote's name with itsunflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil. About The Author Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised invarious parts of the south, his family spending winters in New Orleansand summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he hadalready started writing short stories, some of which were published. Heleft school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the NewYorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following hisspell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farmwhere he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, atone time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, andtravelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highlypraised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories(1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's(1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became thecentre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music forChameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of whichare published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece ofjournalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-wordarticle in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring andwriting the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the twoyoung killers who brutally murdered them. In Cold Blood createda genre of novelistic non-fiction and made Capote's name with itsunflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil. About The Author Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised invarious parts of the south, his family spending winters in New Orleansand summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he hadalready started writing short stories, some of which were published. Heleft school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the NewYorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following hisspell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farmwhere he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, atone time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, andtravelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highlypraised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories(1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's(1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became thecentre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music forChameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of whichare published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.
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