File:Truman_Capote_by_Jack_Mitchell.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ134180· pop 101· linked from 1,038 articles

Truman Capote

Also known as Truman Garcia Capote

American author (1924-1984)

AI overview

Truman Capote was an American author who lived from 1924 to 1984 and became known for his distinctive literary voice and writing style. He is remembered as an influential figure in twentieth-century American literature, though the specific details of his major works and cultural impact would require additional information to fully explain.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 30 September 1924
Died: 25 August 1984
Works: 101

Top works

Other voices, other rooms
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
In Cold Blood (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
Radical Shadows

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Writing · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Truman Capote was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics. At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother and multiple migrations. He discovered his calling by the age of 11, and for the…

Known for

The New Yorker at 100 — Self (archive footage)2025
6 morts dans la nuit : « De sang-froid » – Truman Capote — Self (archive footage)2024
Bad Hostage — Self (archive footage)2024
Groucho & Cavett — Self (archive footage)2022
The Capote Tapes — Self (archive footage)2021
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation — Self - Writer (archive footage)2021
Do I Sound Gay? — Self (archive footage)2015
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel — Self (archive footage)2012
Public Speaking — Self (archive footage)2011
American Experience — Self (archive footage)1988

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1924
Active to: 1984

Discogs Stream

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,482
Total plays: 30,691

Similar artists

Cormac McCarthyDavid SedarisErnest HemingwayPhilip K. DickJohn Steinbeck

Truman Capote (pronounced /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti/) (September 30, 1924 — August 25, 1984) (born Truman Streckfus Persons) was an American writer whose short stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Truman+Capote">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Truman Capote

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Delirium in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
· 2001 · cited 2,695x
ENDF/B-VII.1 Nuclear Data for Science and Technology: Cross Sections, Covariances, Fission Product Yields and Decay Data
· 2011 · cited 2,510x
Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease
· 2023 · cited 2,413x
ENDF/B-VIII.0: The 8 th Major Release of the Nuclear Reaction Data Library with CIELO-project Cross Sections, New Standards and Thermal Scattering Data
· 2018 · cited 2,058x
Antibiotics: past, present and future
· 2019 · cited 2,034x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.”
“It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.”
“It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect.”
“A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.”
“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.”
“The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Image: Truman Capote by Jack Mitchell.jpg

Show 10 more facts

Commons category: Truman Capote
date of birth: 1924-09-30
date of death: 1984-08-25
birth name: Truman Streckfus Persons
Commons gallery: Truman Capote
start of work period: 1943-00-00
name in native language: Truman Capote
end of work period: 1982-00-00
P8168: Aichryson laxum
P12674: Gütenbach

Sources (6)

via Wikidata · CC0

~40 min read

Article

Truman Garcia Capote (/kəˈpoʊti/ kə-POH-tee; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.

Capote had a troubled childhood caused by his parents' divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple moves. He was planning to become a writer by the time he was eight years old, and he honed his writing ability throughout his childhood. He began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of "Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and resulted in a contract to write the novel Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He achieved widespread acclaim with Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)—a novella about a fictional New York café society girl named Holly Golightly, and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966)—a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. Capote spent six years writing the latter, aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).