Truman Capote: Truman Streckfus Person

Truman Capote, original name Truman Streckfus Persons is one of the 20th century’s most well-known American novelists. Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 30, 1924. When Capote was young, his parents were divorced, so he spent his young life with various elderly relatives in small towns of Louisiana and Alabama. Capote was later living under his mother’s unstable care. Capote had a gift for telling stories and entertaining people, and some of his teachers noted his promise as a writer. He wrote his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms in 1948. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) was adapted into a popular film, and his book In Cold Blood (1966) was developed in a more journalistic approach. Capote spent his later years pursuing
celebrity and suffered from drug addiction. He passed on August 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California.