With Audrey Hepburn
Literature and history: problem families, problem teenagers; talented teenagers, wanton prodigal sons, debauched American literary geeks; published articles at the age of 14, and established Capote's literary master status with the famous work "Breakfast at Tiffany's"; and won the O.Henry Literary Prize at the age of 22. Since then, he has become a shining star in the literary world; the pinnacle of "Cold Blood" has sensationalized the United States; he is the most famous and star-like writer in the United States in the twentieth century, and at the same time the most controversial and seriously denigrated writer; in the entire twentieth century, only two outstanding novelists have really become household names in the United States, that is, Hemingway and him; the snarky Maugham also called him a "first-class stylist"; Truman Capote was friends with Monroe.
"I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm a gay person. I'm a genius. Even so, I could still be a saint. He said.
Capote's work has both Hemingway's touching feelings and Fitzgerald's charm. His later situation had something in common with these two American writers—alcoholism, depression, and the exhaustion of literary creativity; Capote's novels spanned a large geographical span, covering much of the United States, depicting the lives of characters of all walks of life, as well as humanity such as good and evil, desire, justice, and crime.
The first time I read the English version of Capote's work, it made me lament that I didn't have the talent to write, so I didn't try to write a novel until I was twenty-nine. --Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer
Capote was born in New Orleans in 1924.
Because his mother was a "teenage mother" who was only 17 years old when she gave birth to him, Capote was fostered in a relative's house in Alabama shortly after his birth. Four years later, the young mother divorced her husband.
At the age of 9, he was officially adopted by his mother and wealthy stepfather who remarried to New York.
He was talented and intelligent, 5 years old, 12 years old essay contest winner, but at the age of 17 he dropped out of high school and broke through the society.
From the age of 17, he published articles in publications such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
In 1946, Capote won the O.Henry Prize for Fiction for his short story Miriam.
In 1948, Capote published his first novel, "Other Voices, Other Rooms," which told the story of a 13-year-old boy's unusual precocious puberty. The novel was immediately featured on the New York Times bestseller list.
In 1951, he wrote the novella "Grass Harp". The Grass Harp is Capotti's most autobiographical masterpiece, depicting three deformed people— an orphan and two eccentric old ladies — who decide to quit the cruel real world and retreat into a treehouse; the novel is beautifully written, emotionally delicate, and poignant.
In the same year, he won the O.Henry Prize for Fiction for the second time for his short story "The Flower Room".
In the ten years since the publication of The Grass Harp, he experimented with a variety of techniques.
In 1958, he became famous by publishing a novel about a bohemian man pursuing honorary status in New York, Breakfast at Tiffany. The success of the novel and the film made Capote famous and profitable. The ongoing heat of New York's social scene surrounds Capote.
During this period, he also experimented with writing what he himself, together with Tom Wolff and Norman Mailer, called non-fiction. The first is The Muse Is Heard (1956), which recounts the visit of a black american song and dance troupe performing the folk opera Borgie and Bess in the Soviet Union in 1955.
He was awarded the O.Henry Memorial Award three times in 1946, 1948 and 1951. In 1959 he received the American Academy of Letters and Arts Creation Award. In 1964, he was elected as a member of the academy.
From 1960 to 1966, he spent six years investigating the murder of two murderers in Kansas City, and wrote the pinnacle of "Cold Blood" with an attitude of not showing sympathy for both the murderer and the murderer, which caused a sensation in the United States. "Cold Blood" became a phenomenon in the sixties. Cold Blood quickly topped the bestseller when it was published, and the book was translated into 25 languages and published around the world.
It created a new documentary genre. Timeliness, readability, literature, everything, perfect. This success was accompanied by Capote's self-blame for "sacrificing" Perry, so that he could not let go of his cruelty for the rest of his life.
In the years that followed, Capote was considered the most prestigious writer in the United States and the world. Films based on this work are also classified as classics.
He won universal praise, making the "non-fiction novel" a literary form that was imitated.
Whether it is literature or film and television, Capote has completed several world-wide immortal creations through his own actions, gaining fame and money. He also participated in the movie "Strange Feast".
After that, he indulged in the life of a drunken fan. He held grand masquerades, made frequent appearances on television, and kept revealing his next writing plans, but never wrote anything.
In addition, he wrote numerous stories about the lives of people in the upper class and the arts, and received an episode titled "Dog Barking: Famous People and Forbidden Lands" (1973). In 1966, he published a work reminiscing about his childhood life, Memories of a Christmas.
From 1975 to 1976, he wrote reports of real people and true events based on his diaries and letters from relatives and friends, entitled "The Prayer Who Answered.". Later, because these reporters protested, accusing him of betraying their trust in him, they stopped publishing.
In 1979, he published the non-fiction short story "Show Off" in The Lord magazine, with vivid and lively writing.
In 1980, he published a collection of short stories and non-fiction, Music for Chameleons.
In his later years, Capote did not repent, and even more unrestrained.
On the evening of August 25, 1984, Capote died suddenly of a female friend's home due to overuse of drugs at the age of 59.
His masterpiece "Breakfast at Tiffany'" and the long-form documentary literature "Cold Blood".
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