Facts on Truman Capote

Truman Capote was born in 1924 in New Orleans. As a child he was raised by his cousins and aunts because his mother had abandoned him.

According to him, he was obsessed with writing right from the age of eleven. He would return from school and write for three hours every day. This was his way of escaping from his loneliness. When he became a teenager, he was sent to New York to live with his mother and her new husband.

His first novel was Other voices, Other rooms in which one can find traces of his own life. He went to write another novel called Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was later turned into a movie. Apart from these, he also wrote a non fiction book called In Cold Blood, which was based on the murder of the Clutters family in Kansas. Capote spent 6 years in Kansas so that he could understand the atmosphere in Kansas after this incident and the impact of this incident on the lives of the people there. The book became very famous and sold millions of copies

Capote began to write a book based on the lives of his friends. After a part of this book was published, there was a scandal among his friends resulting in most of his friends abandoning him. This shocked him greatly and Capote turned to alcohol and drugs and after that his writing career was almost over as he could not write anything the same way. He died in 1984 when he was just fifty nine.

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