Author

Books by Truman Capote

Truman Capote (1924–1984) was an American novelist and journalist whose fiction included Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms, and whose journalism pioneered the form he called the nonfiction novel. Born in New Orleans, he published his first stories in his twenties and became a fixture of New York literary and social life. In Cold Blood, researched over six years and published in 1965-66, was his most sustained and ambitious work; the experience of attending the executions of Smith and Hickock damaged him profoundly, and he never published another completed book.