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Truman Capote Author's Experiences Truman Capote (Childhood (Important…
Truman Capote Author's Experiences 
Mediocre student; private boys school in Manhattan; graduated high school in Connecticut and did not formally attend college. Biography.com
Childhood
Important Experiences
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He never felt that he got the recognition he deserved in his lifetime, but interest in the author and his works has been ongoing. :<3:
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Parents: divorced. His mother left him for extended periods of time with relatives. She eventually remarried and his stepfather adopted him.His mother struggled with alcoholism and depression until her death by suicide in 1954
Sook: elderly aunt that he lived with for several years. She was very important to him and he wrote about her in multiple stories.
“I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about eleven. I say seriously in the sense that like other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano or whatever, I used to go home from school every day and I would write for about three hours. I was obsessed by it.”
PBS, American Masters
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Basics:
born Sept. 30, 1924
died 1984
Career
Most famous for Breakfast at Tiffany's and
In Cold Blood, but he wrote many other books
short stories. A complete list can be found here.
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“This book was an important event for me. While writing it, I realized I just might have found a solution to what had always been my greatest creative quandary. I wanted to produce a journalistic novel, something on a large scale that would have the credibility of fact, the immediacy of film, the depth and freedom of prose, and the precision of poetry.” I
