Truman Capote (1924–1984)
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Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984 Novelist and playwright Truman Streckfus Person was born in 1924 in New Orleans to a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen. His parents divorced when he was four years old and was then raised by relatives for a few years in Monroeville. His mother was remarried to a vis mere successful businessman, moved to New York, and Truman adopted his stepfather's surname. He attended Greenwich High School and never went to college. When he was 17, Capote's formal education ended when he was employed at The New Yorker magazine. He belived he did not need to go to college to be a writer, since he was writing seriously since age 11. Capote's first novel was "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948), which told the story of a boy growing up in the Deep South. "The Grass Harp" (1951) is about a young boy and his elderly cousin discovering that some compromise is necessary for people to live together in a community and was adapted to screen in 1996. The play "The House of Flowers" (1954) is a musical set in a West Indies bordello. Capote then wrote, "Breakfast at Tiffanys" (1958), which tells the story of how Holly Golightly goes to New York seeking happiness. Capote became preoccupied with journalism and, sparked by the murder of a wealthy family in Holcomb, Kansas, began interviewing the locals to recreate the lives of the murderers and their victims. The research and writing for this novel, "In Cold Blood" (1966), took six years for him to complete. Other works of Capote's include the classic "A Christmas Memory" (1966), which is an autobiographical account of a seven-year-old boy, his cousin, and an eccentric old lady, "Music for Chameleons" (1981), which is a collection of short pieces, interviews, stories and conversations that were published in several magazines, and "One Christmas" (1982). On August 26, 1984 in Los Angeles, Truman Capote died of liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication. Published after his death were "Conversations With Capote" (1985) and "Answered Prayers: The Untitled Novel" (1986). (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Truman Capote
The Grass Harp: Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1945) 1,007 eksemplarer, 17 anmeldelser
A Christmas Memory / One Christmas / The Thanksgiving Visitor (1983) 718 eksemplarer, 30 anmeldelser
Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir: With the lost photographs of David Attie (2015) 25 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
Os Cães Ladram. Pessoas Públicas E Lugares Privados - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2006) 9 eksemplarer
House of Flowers [short story] 6 eksemplarer
Yachts and Things — Forfatter — 5 eksemplarer
Breakfast at Tiffany's: Level 3 (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers)) (2010) 5 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
Marilyn & Co: Begegnungen mit Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor und vielen anderen (2009) 5 eksemplarer
Fra i sentieri dell'Eden (in I racconti) 4 eksemplarer
Cinco relatos para mujeres 3 eksemplarer
Großes Kurzgeschichten- Buch I / Big Book of Modern Stories. Englisch- Deutsch. (1980) 3 eksemplarer
HOUSE OF FLOWERS. A MUSICAL. 2 eksemplarer
Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory - ABC Stage 67 2 eksemplarer
Baum der Nacht Skizzen und Stories 2 eksemplarer
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote Publisher: Vintage 2 eksemplarer
In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's 2 eksemplarer
In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's 2 eksemplarer
Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker 2 eksemplarer
Esmorzar a Tiffany's 2 eksemplarer
Shut a Final Door 2 eksemplarer
Integrala prozei scurte (Romanian Edition) 2 eksemplarer
Thanksgiving Visitor and Christmas Memory, The 2 eksemplarer
Dejuni a Can Tiffany 1 eksemplar
Trees of the Night 1 eksemplar
Tiffany de chóshoku wo (ティファニーで朝食を) 1 eksemplar
Blind items 1 eksemplar
Yoru no ki (夜の樹) 1 eksemplar
Un été indien 1 eksemplar
In Cold Blood - Inglês 1 eksemplar
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS´S 1 eksemplar
Cu sânge rece 1 eksemplar
breakfast at tiffanys 1 eksemplar
Desayuno's en Tiffany's 1 eksemplar
Hommikueine Tiffany juures 1 eksemplar
Un albero di notte (in I racconti) 1 eksemplar
1962 1 eksemplar
Morceaux choisis 1 eksemplar
Truman Capote Reads Scenes from In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. 1966. 33 1/3… (1966) 1 eksemplar
AFTERWORDS 1 eksemplar
Morgunverður á Tiffany's 1 eksemplar
One Christmas: The Thanksgiving visitor 1 eksemplar
Un ricordo del nonno (in I racconti) 1 eksemplar
GIFT OF THE MAGI, THE AND OTHER STORIES 1 eksemplar
Il falco senza testa (in I racconti) 1 eksemplar
Miss Bobbit (in I racconti) 1 eksemplar
נבל העשב 1 eksemplar
Padron Miseria (in I racconti) 1 eksemplar
Sithala le 1 eksemplar
Desde la biblioteca: Truman Capote 1 eksemplar
Zajtrk pri Tiffanyju 1 eksemplar
Glasba za kameleone 1 eksemplar
Se Oyen Las Musas [The Muses Are Heard] 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Bidragyder — 465 eksemplarer, 4 anmeldelser
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (1966) — Introduktion — 418 eksemplarer, 5 anmeldelser
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, Revised & Updated Edition (1995) — Bidragyder — 413 eksemplarer, 7 anmeldelser
The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors (1994) — Bidragyder — 328 eksemplarer
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Bidragyder — 268 eksemplarer, 5 anmeldelser
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Bidragyder — 216 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter (2019) — Forfatter — 207 eksemplarer, 6 anmeldelser
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) — Bidragyder — 201 eksemplarer, 3 anmeldelser
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 187 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 179 eksemplarer, 2 anmeldelser
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 163 eksemplarer, 5 anmeldelser
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Bidragyder — 122 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Bidragyder — 114 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1: From Sherlock Holmes to A Clockwork Orange to Jo Nesbø (2017) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer, 3 anmeldelser
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 3 — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
The Grass Harp [1995 film] — Original book — 3 eksemplarer
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenenderdig verhalen uit de moderne wereldliteratuur (1975) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Capote, Truman
- Juridisk navn
- Persons, Truman Streckfus
- Fødselsdato
- 1924-09-30
- Dødsdag
- 1984-08-25
- Begravelsessted
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Dødssted
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Dødsårsag
- Liver disease
- Bopæl
- Monroeville, Alabama, USA
New York, New York, USA
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA - Uddannelse
- Greenwich High School
Dwight School - Erhverv
- writer
- Relationer
- Lee, Harper (friend)
Murakami, Haruki (translator)
Dunphy, Jack (lover)
Agnelli, Marella (friend) - Organisationer
- The New Yorker
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- O. Henry Award (1946)
O. Henry Award (1948)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1959)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1964)
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Discussions
June 2015: Truman Capote i Monthly Author Reads (februar 2019)
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote (Bowie's Top 100) i 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (marts 2016)
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- Popularitet
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- Vurdering
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- ISBN
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