Dec 31, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Capote, Truman
Capote, Truman
(
1924
–
84
),
American author, born in New Orleans, whose work ranges from the light-hearted story of playgirl Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (
1958
) to the grim investigation In Cold Blood (
1966
), a ‘non-fiction novel’ or work of
faction
, in which Capote recreated the brutal multiple murder of a whole Kansas family by two ex-convicts, and traces the lives of the murderers to the moment of their execution.
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