Biographie de Truman Capote

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1924 and was raised in various parts of the South, his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. In 1948 his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was published to international critical acclaim, assuring Capote a place among the prominent postwar American writers.
His other works include The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986). Summer Crossing, Capote's first novel, was sold at Sotheby's, New York, in 2004, and published for the first time in the UK by Penguin Classics in zoos. Truman Capote died in August 1984.