Contents: Introduction chapter I american writer of Truman Capote

Chapter I American author Truman Hood
1.1. Early life and education


Truman Capote , real name Truman Struckfuss. Persons (born September 30, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - August 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California) is an American writer, short story writer, and playwright whose early works expanded into the southern Gothic tradition, although even if it is later. He developed a more journalistic approach in Cold Blood (1965; film 1967), which remains his most famous work, along with Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958; film 1961).
His parents divorced at a young age, and he spent his childhood with various elderly relatives in small towns in Louisiana and Alabama. (He owes his last name to his mother's remarriage to Joseph Garcia Capot.) He attended private schools and ¹eventually joined his mother and stepfather in Millbrook, Connecticut, graduating from Greenwich High School.
In Monroeville, Capote befriended young Harper Lee. The two were at odds: Capote was a thin boy, he was ridiculed by other kids as weak, and Lee was a rude and rude tomboy. Despite their differences, Lee impressed Capot, calling him a “pocket Merlin” for his creative and inventive approach. These playful friends never imagined that one day they would both become famous writers.
While on vacation with his friends, Capote also had to deal with his horrible family life. Over the years, seeing little of his mother and father, he often struggled with the feeling of being abandoned by them. He caught their attention several times during the divorce, when they fought for guardianship to the detriment of each other. Capote finally managed to live with his mother in 1932, but the meeting did not turn out as he expected. She moved to New York to live with him and her new stepfather, Joe Capot.
She changed a lot when her once-loving mother started seeing her every day. Lilly May - now calling herself Nina - could easily have been cruel or kind to Truman, and she never knew what to expect from him. She was often blamed for her femininity and not being like other boys. His stepfather seemed a more stable man at home, but at the time Truman was not interested in his help or assistance. However, he was legally adopted by his stepfather and in 1935 his name was changed to Truman Garcia Capote.
Capote, an average student, did well in the courses he was interested in and paid little attention to those who did not interest him. He attended a private boys' school in Manhattan from 1933 to 1936, where he charmed some of his classmates. The extraordinary kid Capote had a gift to tell a fairy tale and entertain people. His mother wanted to pamper him more and thought the answer was to send him to a military academy. The 1936-1937 school year was a disaster for Capote. Being the youngest in his class, he was often followed by other cadets.
Back in Manhattan, Capote began to attract attention with his work at the school. Some of his teachers noted his ability to write. In 1939, Capote moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he entered Truman Greenwich High School. He stood out among his classmates for his cheerful nature. Over time, Capote developed a group of friends who often came home to smoke, drink, and dance in their room. He and his group also went to nearby clubs. For adventure and escape, Capot and his best friend Fi Pierce also traveled to New York and visited some of the most popular nightclubs, including the Stork Club and the Café Society.²
While he was living in Greenwich, his mother’s alcoholism increased, making Capot’s family life even more dangerous. Capote did poorly in school and repeated his 12th grade at Franklin High School after returning to Manhattan with his family in 1942. Instead of reading the hood, he spent the night in clubs, befriending playwright Eugene O’Neill’s daughter Una O’Neill and writer Agnes Boulton , as well as his heir apparent friend Gloria Vanderbilt and others.
started his first job as a copywriter for The New York Times . New Yorker magazine . While working on the publication, Capot tried to publish his stories there. He left The New Yorker to write full-time and started the novel Summer Transition, which left him to work on the novel Other Voices, Other Rooms. The first successes of the hood were not his novels, but several short stories. In 1945, Captain’s story “Miriam” about a strange little girl was chosen by editor George Davis to be published by Madmoiselle Publishing. In addition to befriending Davis, Capote became closer to his assistant, Rita Smith, sister of the famous southern writer Carson McCulllers. He later introduced the two, and Capot and McCullers became friends for a while.³
Capote's story in " Mademoiselle" caught the attention of Mary Louise Eswell, Harper's Bazaar fiction editor . In October 1945, Capote published another dark and terrifying story, The Tree of Light. These stories also began the creation of Capote's "My Side of the Tale" and "A Jug of Silver" and gave him access to the literary world of New York.
When Capote wanted to work on his first novel, he got help from Carson McCalllers. He helped her enter Yaddo, a colony of well-known artists in New York State. The hood spent part of the summer of 1946 there, where he worked on his novel, and Mademoiselle completed the story The Headless Rookie, published in the fall. Capote also fell in love with Newton Arvin, a college professor and literary scholar. A well-educated academic and a brilliant magician formed a very interesting couple. Arvin, like many in Yaddo , was completely amazed by Capote’s intelligence, demeanor, and appearance. In the same year, Capot received the prestigious O. Henry Award for his story Miriam.

Capote used his childhood experience in many of his early fantasies. Refusing further education, he gained early literary recognition in 1945 when his obsessive story Miriam was published in Mademoiselle magazine; the following year he received the O. Henry Memory Award, the first of four awards Capote was to receive. His first published novel , Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), was recognized as the work of a promising young writer. The book is a sensual, partly autobiographical depiction of the search for a child’s father and sexual identity in a terribly devastated southern world. The story of “Close the Last Door” (O. Henry Prize, 1946) and other stories about lonely and unloved people are collected in The Night Tree and Other Stories (1949). The quasi-autobiographical novel Grass Arp (1951) is the story of an innocent villain who dies temporarily in a tree house and ages back in the real world. One of Capote’s most famous works is “ Breakfast at Tiffany’s” - a tale about a young fairy girl in a coffee society, Holly Golaytli; it was first published in Esquire magazine in 1958 and was later published as a book with several other stories.⁴

Capot’s passion for journalism was reflected in his non-fiction novel Cold Blood , a horrific story about the 1959 murder of four members of the Clutter family in Kansas. Capote launched an investigation shortly after the murder and interviewed two people who had been executed for the crime for six years. (This time includes the months he spent in Kansas with his friend, childhood neighbor, and his colleague Harper Lee, who worked as his “ research assistant .”) Cold Blood first appeared in 1965 in The New Yorker . appeared as a series of articles in the newspaper ; the book version was published the same year. His critical and popular success brought Capot to the forefront of emerging journalism, and it was the culmination of his two careers as a writer and socialist. He had a strange but pleasant personality, and he delighted the viewers with the horrific events told in his sharp southern accent.⁵
Subsequent compositions of the hood never approached the success of their predecessors. In the late 1960s, he adapted two short stories about his childhood for television, Christmas Memories and Thanksgiving Guest. Dog Dog: Public People and Private Spaces (1973) is a collection of essays and profiles from 30 years ago, while Music for Chameleons: A New Writing (1980) is a compilation of both artistic and non-artistic works. includes In the years that followed, Capot’s growing addiction to drugs and alcohol hampered his performance. In addition, excerpts from the planned work, which he considered his masterpiece, appeared in Esquire magazine in 1975-1976, and the social satire "Positive Prayers," which caused a storm among friends and foes, was included in the play (the most delicate mask). below) is vividly depicted. . ). After that, he was ostracized by his former famous friends. An unfinished book at the time of his death was published in 1986 under the title Prayers Answered: An Incomplete Novel. The short novel Summer Transition , written by Capote in the 1940s and considered lost, was published in 2006.