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	Author Profile: Truman Capote
		Truman Capote, born in New Orleans, LA., September 30, 1924, and died on August 25, 1984, was a Southern Gothic novelist, journalist, and celebrated man-about-town.
		Capote's nonfiction novel IN COLD BLOOD (1966; film, 1967) was based on a 6-year study of the murder of a rural Kansas family by two young drifters.
		Truman Capote was one of the great writers of the 20th Century.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-capote-truman.asp (987 words)

	Truman Capote at AllExperts
		Capote described the symbolic tale as "a poetic explosion in highly suppressed emotion." The novel is a semi-autobiographical refraction of Capote's Alabama childhood.
		Truman claimed that the camera had caught him off guard, but in fact he had posed himself and was responsible for both the picture and the publicity." Much of the early attention to Capote centered around this photograph, which was widely discussed at the time.
		Capote died, according to the coroner's report, of "liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication" at the age of 59 on August 25, 1984, in the home of his old friend Joanne Carson, ex-wife of late-night TV host Johnny Carson, on whose program Capote was a frequent guest.
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	Truman Capote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Capote described the symbolic tale as "a poetic explosion in highly suppressed emotion." The novel is a semi-autobiographical refraction of Capote's Alabama childhood.
		Truman claimed that the camera had caught him off guard, but in fact he had posed himself and was responsible for both the picture and the publicity." Much of the early attention to Capote centered around this photograph, which was widely discussed at the time.
		Capote died, according to the coroner's report, of "liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication" at the age of 59 on August 25, 1984, in the home of his old friend Joanne Carson, ex-wife of late-night TV host Johnny Carson, on whose program Capote was a frequent guest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Truman_Capote (5371 words)

	Modern Journalism
		Truman Capote: A Black + White Tribute is a wonderful webpage featuring fl and white photos of the writer and exerpts from his various books.
		Truman Capote is known for developing "New Journalism," a style of writing that was a cross between journalism and literature.
		Capote was fascinated by film scripts and employed techniques similar to those used in film narrative, such as psychological closeups and examinations, flashback scenes and carefully-depicted settings (Garson, 143).
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/capote.htm (2521 words)

	Truman Capote
		Capote had already established his fame among cultural circles for his thinly-veiled lisp, his promise as a writer, and his quick quips.
		Capote's lyrical style, melancholy, and whimsical humor left their mark on his novel, The Grass Harp (1951), in which a young boy and his elderly cousin defy the conventions of a materialistic society while discovering that some compromise is necessary if people are to live together within a community.
		Interestingly, while Capote was working on the Holcomb murders, Lee was preparing to use Capote as a model for one of her own novel's characters.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-093003-capote.html (1428 words)

	Truman Capote - LitWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk (Persons) with his birth name being Truman Streckfus Persons.
		Capote and his mother both admitted that she was not suited for motherhood.
		Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer.
	litmuse.maconstate.edu /litwiki/index.php/Truman_Capote (754 words)

	Truman Capote
		Capote gained international fame with his "nonfiction novel" IN COLD BLOOD (1966), an account of a real life crime in which an entire family was murdered by two sociopaths.
		Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, as the son of a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen, Lillie Mae Faulk.
		Truman Capote died in Los Angeles, California, on August 26, 1984, of liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /capote.htm (1639 words)

	Capote - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
		Truman Capote, flush with success following the previous year’s publication of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and looking for a subject that would enable him to write a lengthy piece of literary nonfiction, seized upon a brief notice of the killings that was buried on page 39 of the November 16 New York Times.
		Capote was certainly mercenary about the situation and more than willing to profit in both dollars and reputation by the misfortunes of the Clutters and their killers.
		Capote is made to seem the Machiavellian exploiter and Smith his helpless dupe, when the truth is that their relationship was, if not completely symbiotic, at least mutually parasitic.
	www.pajiba.com /capote.htm (1675 words)

	AMCTV.com - Truman Capote Biography
		Controversial, colorful, and complex, Truman Capote was a writer of uncommon grace whose literary career was all too often overshadowed by his flamboyant, jet-setting lifestyle.
		Truman Capote's life is born out in his writings; his stories of little boys raised by female relatives are based on his childhood following the divorce of his parents.
		Though it would appear that such an outrageous talent as Capote would be a natural for Hollywood, he did only occasionally work for the studios, preferring instead to socialize with their stars.
	www.amctv.com /article?CID=1125-1--0-9-EST (469 words)

	In Cold Blood and Truman Capote
		His second novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, was published in 1958, and in 1959 Capote began research on the Clutter family murders in Kansas, a crime of such senseless brutality that its equal had rarely been seen.
		Like Capote's first two books, In Cold Blood was a huge "best seller", and by 1983, according to the Washington Post, the book had brought the author $2 million in royalties.
		Capote captures the mood of a small tiny town in the midst of catastrophe brilliantly.
	auschwitz.dk /capote.htm (300 words)

	Truman Capote's grave
		Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans, Louisiana, to salesman Archulus "Arch" Persons and 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk.
		Capote was well known for his distinctive, high-pitched voice (often said to have a lisp, which is untrue), his offbeat manner of dress and his fabrications.
		Capote was further demoralized in 1978 when Radziwill provided testimony on behalf of perpetual nemesis Gore Vidal in a defamation lawsuit stemming from a drunken interview Capote gave Playboy in 1976.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /WestwoodObituaries/trumancapote.htm (1913 words)

	Truman Capote - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Capote, Truman (1924-1984), American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, most famous for his carefully crafted prose and innovative attempts to...
		Breakfast at Tiffany’s, motion picture based on the novel by Truman Capote about a young woman who lives a freewheeling life in New York City....
		Peripheral events proved almost as important during the year as the revival in fiction and the continued output of distinguished biographies.
	encarta.msn.com /Truman_Capote.html (203 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Capote, Truman
		Truman Capote's fiction and autobiographical works helped establish what might be called the quintessential homosexual writing style of the 1950s and 1960s.
		Capote's writing, especially his fiction and more direct autobiographical work, helped establish what might be called the quintessential homosexual writing style of the period, with clear links to the work of Tennessee Williams, for example.
		Capote was also involved to varying degrees in film, most successfully with his screenplay for The Innocents, as well as the musical theater, with the failure House of Flowers.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/capote_t.html (1229 words)

	CultureSpace: Truman Capote, From the Inside Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As Hoffman plays him, Truman Capote is brilliant, humorous, sympathetic, pompous, vain, self-serving, and manipulative, a man freed by the brilliance of his talent but deeply constrained by his past and his desperate need for self-mythologizing.
		He is a "gold mine," as Capote says, and the majority of the film, often confined to Smith's jail cell, painstakingly examines the attraction and repulsion between these two men, who need each other for their own tragic reasons.
		The strength of Capote is its understated tone, the way in which its blue and gray visual palette captures the coldness of the Kansas winter, the manner in which, in quiet fashion, its draws connections between Capote's own family history and the story he is writing.
	culturespace.typepad.com /index/2005/10/truman_capote_f.html (1493 words)

	Capote, Truman - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During his lifetime, the witty, diminutive writer was a well-known public personage, hobnobbing with the rich and famous and frequently appearing in the popular media, before he lapsed into alcoholism in his final years.
		In 1966, Capote published his "nonfiction novel," In Cold Blood, a chilling account of the senseless, brutal murder of a Kansas family that is widely considered his finest work.
		A warm blooded portrait of Truman Capote; INTERVIEW Lifestyle Editor Carole Ann Rice meets the writer and actor w ho has specialised in bringing back to life towering but troubled literary gian ts like Truman Capote.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Capote-T.asp (468 words)

	Truman Capote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Truman pioneered a new literary genre, the Nonfiction Novel, with what many claim as his ultimate work, In Cold Blood, the story of a rural Kansas murder recounting journalistic facts with the flair of prose.
		Capote's natural talent for weaving truth with fiction and his unflinching descriptions of his friends soon led to his rapid descent in popularity in the social circles he had worked so hard to adopt.
		Truman Capote died on August 25, 1984, but his presence remains alive in the 21st century, even among today's celebrated caricatures.
	eprentice.sdsu.edu /F054/chasen/Capote (352 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: In Cold Blood: A True Account of A Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Essential.penguin S.): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Capote's greatest skill is his ability to keep his emotions in check, avoiding making judgements, just telling the facts as best he can and as a result allowing all of his characters to come to life on the page.
		Truman Capote recounts the story of the murders of four members of the Clutter family, one November night in 1959, and provides details of the events leading up to the murders, what the killers (Dick and Perry) did whilst on the run, their arrest, trial and punishment.
		Capote does a remarkable job at an even-handed analysis and narrative treatment of all the characters, from the family itself to the townspeople and investigators, as well as the murderers themselves.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140274189 (1537 words)

	Capote (2005): Reviews
		Capote represents something unique in cinema.…Most eye-catching for critics and audiences in the weeks to come will be Philip Seymour Hoffman's brilliant metamorphosis into the persona of the late author.
		The triumph of Capote is that it both grants and shares with him that twisted brew of obsessive identification and monstrous detachment that is the fertile burden of the artist.
		Capote begins as a sprawling, vivacious comedy-drama in which Hoffman's Capote is only one of a number of fascinating characters, including Chris Cooper's upstanding, ramrod-straight lawman and Keener's tough, blunt assistant/sidekick/foil/author.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/capote (1762 words)

	Truman Capote: His Life and Work \| A Sponsored Archive
		Truman returned to Europe, but in January, 1954, he was forced to fly back to New York after his mother swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills.
		Capote's interest in the possibilities of journalism led to the writing of The Muses Are Heard, the story of a Porgy and Bess troupe's visit to the Soviet Union, and "The Duke in His Domain," a long and revealing profile of Marlon Brando.
		Truman, while a fan of Hepburn's, thought she had been miscast and was disappointed in the film; he felt Marilyn Monroe would have been a better choice.
	www.nytimes.com /ads/capote/capote_e.html (1632 words)

	American Masters . Truman Capote \| PBS
		Born in New Orleans in 1924, Capote was abandoned by his mother and raised by his elderly aunts and cousins in Monroeville, Alabama.
		Capote left his jet-set friends and went to Kansas to delve into the small-town life and record the process by which they coped with this loss.
		Though many feel that Capote did not live up to the promise of his early work, it is clear from what he did write that he was an artist of exquisite talent and vision.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html (921 words)

	Truman Capote Biography (Writer) — Infoplease.com
		Capote became a familiar face on TV (especially on Johnny Carson's show), instantly recognized for his diminutive frame and languid, lisping speech.
		Capote wrote essays, novels, stories and screenplays, and adapted some of his works for television and the stage.
		Capote is said to have dismissed the works of Beat authors such as Jack Kerouac with the comment, "That's not writing, it's typing."
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/trumancapote.html (455 words)

	Southern Author Truman Capote profiled in Southern Literary Review
		Truman’s years in Alabama would later became the material for some of his most sentimental, loving characters, especially the elderly spinster in several of Capote's novels, stories, and plays.
		Capote began writing stories when he was eight years old.
		It is interesting to note that childhood friend, Harper Lee, portrayed Capote as Dill in her famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
	www.southernlitreview.com /authors/truman_capote.htm (468 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Capote was a lifelong friend of Monroeville neighbor Harper Lee and was allegedly the inspiration for the character of Dill in her best-seller To Kill A Mockingbird.
		Capote frequently implied that he himself had written a considerable portion of her novel; some even say he ghosted the entire novel.
		Capote, an openly gay man, was as well known for his high-pitched, lisping voice, outrageous manner of dress, and wild fabrications about acquaintances and events as he was for his literary output.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Truman_Capote (1155 words)

	USATODAY.com - The life of Truman Capote three times told (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Now, 20 years after Capote's death, a movie is planned about the making of his greatest book, and his literary merits are celebrated in three volumes, being published to mark what would have been his 80th birthday today.
		Capote was only 23, and in his book he dealt openly with homosexuality in a way that few best sellers of that era did.
		Capote said the photo was taken when he was not aware of it and used without his permission.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-09-29-capote_x.htm (573 words)

	Truman Capote
		And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, reminds one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of our time.
		Papers of Truman Capote are for the most part made up of holograph and typescript manuscripts of his works, both published and unpublished.
		Truman's style was something he just accepted, and he never tried to hide his homosexuality -- style was "simply there," he said, "like the color of your eyes." He traveled with royalty, vacationed with the social elite, and partied with Hollywood legends.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/c/capote_truman.htm (1124 words)

	Capote (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.
		Anachronisms: The bottle of soda in Capote's hotel room is a plastic bottle which was not available during the sixties.
		For a short story writer-raconteur from New Orleans, Capote found himself at the center of a nationally enthralling multiple homicide, facing the ultimate journalist's Faustian dilemma: if he perpetrates a lie for the sake of exposing the truth, is he ever worthy of redemption.
	imdb.com /title/tt0379725 (527 words)

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