biography
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Capote, Truman
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pseudonym of Truman Streckfus Persons
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pronunciation:
[kapohtee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1924–84)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He took his stepfather's surname in childhood. A high school dropout, he went to New York City (1942) and worked for a time as an office boy at The New Yorker. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), launched a literary career that peaked with his innovative ‘non-fiction novel’ In Cold Blood (1966). Resident in New York and Switzerland, he cultivated celebrity status and was famous in later years for his jetsetting lifestyle as well as his writing. |
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