Truman Capote (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons, the only child of J. Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk Persons. During the first six years of his childhood, the boy frequently was handed off to the care of relatives by his carefree and irresponsible parents. Following his parents’ permanent separation when Truman was six, he was left fully in the care of relatives in Monroeville, Alabama.
Being raised by a series of relatives, Capote had a lonely childhood existence; the experience forced him, as he said in many interviews as an adult, to create his...
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