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1984: Truman Capote
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1984 Highlights
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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September 17, 1984
MILESTONES
Truman Capote
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<p>DIED. Truman Capote, 59 eternal enfant terrible of American
letters and author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood and
several collections of short stories of unknown causes in Bel
Air, Calif., where his body was found by police in a mansion
owned by Johnny Carson's former wife Joanne. Born in New
Orleans and raised a lonely child there and in New York City and
New England, he was hired at 17 by The New Yorker as a cartoon
sorter even before the huge success seven years later of his
first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. He was famous in
Manhattan literary circles for his lyrical, funny and gothic
short stories, nearly all on the theme of loneliness. He went
on to adapt his stories for the stage, produce screenplays and
write nonfiction works. Of In Cold Blood, his horrific 1965
account of the murder of a Kansas family by two drifters, he
boasted that he had created a new genre, the nonfiction novel.
As much a member of the glitterati as the literati, Capote was
a gossipy, party-loving sybarite with a gift for self-promotion
and TV talk-show repartee. In recent years, however, his
productivity faltered and he struggled as frequent news reports
about his hospitalizations and drunken-driving arrests gave
witness with an addiction to drugs and alcohol.</p>
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