Truman Capote era un autore americano affermato, nato a New Orleans nel 1925. Trascorse l'infanzia viaggiando tra Sud e New York City, dove visse con la madre e il suo nuovo coniuge. Capote fu un bambino precoce che si insegnò da solo a leggere e scrivere prima di iniziare la scuola. La sua carriera di scrittore iniziò seriamente durante l'adolescenza, quando vendette alcuni dei suoi racconti brevi. Dopo aver abbandonato la high school, trovò lavoro come ragazzo copia al The New Yorker, che segnò l'inizio del suo percorso professionale nel mondo letterario.
Il primo romanzo di Capote, "Other Voices, Other Rooms", fu pubblicato nel 1948 e diventò un bestseller. Il successo del romanzo, insieme ai suoi racconti precedenti, stabilì Capote come una voce significativa nella letteratura americana. Nel corso della sua carriera, Capote scrisse storie, romanzi, opere teatrali e non-fiction, molti dei quali sono stati adattati in film e drammi televisivi. Le sue opere, tra cui "Colazione da Tiffany" e "A sangue freddo", sono considerate capolavori letterari. In particolare, "A sangue freddo" è un libro pionieristico, poiché Capote lo definì un "non-fiction novel", una fusione di reporting di fatto con il racconto narrativo.
Negli anni '50 e '60, Capote continuò a produrre sia fiction che non-fiction, rafforzando ulteriormente la sua reputazione come scrittore di grande maestria. Tuttavia, dopo il successo di "A sangue freddo", pubblicò con minore frequenza e gli ultimi anni della sua vita furono contraddistinti da una dipendenza dall'alcol. Truman Capote morì nel 1984 all'età di 59 anni, lasciando un'eredità come uno dei scrittori americani più abili e influenti.
Romanzi singoli
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
1948
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The Grass Harp
1956
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
1958
4
Answered Prayers
1986
5
Summer Crossing
2005
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Miriam
1944
2
My Side of the Matter
1945
3
Jug of Silver
1949
4
A Christmas Memory
1956
5
Grass Harp
1974
6
Children On Their Birthdays
1976
7
One Christmas
1982
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I Remember Grandpa
1987
Spettacoli teatrali
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House of Flowers
1958
Collezioni
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A Tree of Night and Other Stories
1949
2
Selected Writings
1963
3
Music for Chameleons
1980
4
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
1993
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The Complete Stories
1993
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A Christmas Memory
1996
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Three by Truman Capote
2000
8
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
2012
9
The Early Stories of Truman Capote
2015
Libri di non-fiction
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The Muses are Heard
1957
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The Duke in His Domain
1957
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In Cold Blood
1965
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The Dogs Bark
1973
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Portraits and Observations
1995
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A House on the Heights
2002
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Too Brief a Treat
2004
Literary Conversations Books
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Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
1969
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Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
1981
3
Conversations with Graham Greene
1983
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Conversations with Eudora Welty
1985
5
Conversations with Walker Percy
1985
6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
1985
7
Conversations with William Styron
1985
8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1986
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Conversations with Lillian Hellman
1986
10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams
1986
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Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
1986
12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
1987
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Truman Capote: Conversations
1987
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Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
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Conversations with Peter Taylor
1987
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Conversations with Arthur Miller
1987
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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
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Conversations with Edward Albee
1988
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Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
1988
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Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988
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Conversations with Robert Graves
1989
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Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
1989
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Conversations with Shelby Foote
1989
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Conversations with Robertson Davies
1989
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Conversations with James Baldwin
1989
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Conversations with John Gardner
1990
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Conversations with Richard Wilbur
1990
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Conversations with Tom Wolfe
1990
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Conversations with Raymond Carver
1990
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Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
1990
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Conversations with Reynolds Price
1991
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Conversations with Bernard Malamud
1991
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Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
1991
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Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
1992
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Conversations With Thornton Wilder
1992
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Conversations with Robert Coles
1992
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Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
1992
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More Conversations with Walker Percy
1993
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Conversations with Richard Wright
1993
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Conversations with Paul Bowles
1993
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Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
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Conversations with Amiri Baraka
1994
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Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
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Conversations with Saul Bellow
1994
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Conversations with Henry Miller
1994
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Conversations with Ernest Gaines
1995
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Conversations with Ralph Ellison
1995
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Conversations with Chester Himes
1995
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Conversations with Susan Sontag
1995
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Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995
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Conversations with Derek Walcott
1996
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More Conversations with Eudora Welty
1996
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Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
1996
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Conversations with Pauline Kael
1996
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Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
1997
56
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
1997
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Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1997
58
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
1998
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Conversations with Denise Levertov
1998
60
Conversations With William Faulkner
1999
61
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
1999
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Conversations With John Fowles
1999
63
Conversations with Salman Rushdie
2000
64
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
2000
65
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
2000
66
Conversations with Chaim Potok
2001
67
Conversations with Richard Ford
2001
68
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
2001
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Conversations with Mary Gordon
2002
70
Conversations with Jim Harrison
2002
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Conversations with Clarence Major
2002
72
Conversations with Margaret Walker
2002
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Conversations with Erica Jong
2002
74
Elie Wiesel: Conversations
2002
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Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
2003
76
Conversations with Rita Dove
2003
77
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
78
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
2003
79
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
2003
80
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
2004
81
Conversations with Audre Lorde
2004
82
Conversations with Ray Bradbury
2004
83
Conversations With John le Carré
2004
84
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
2005
85
Conversations with Don DeLillo
2005
86
Conversations with Gore Vidal
2005
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Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
2005
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Conversations with Jack Kerouac
2005
89
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
2005
90
Conversations with Thomas McGuane
2006
91
Conversations with Larry Brown
2007
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Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
2007
93
Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
94
Conversations with Leon Forrest
2007
95
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
2008
The Story of a Decade Books
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade (By: The New Yorker)
2014
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The 50s: The Story of a Decade (By: The New Yorker, Henry Finder)
2015
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The 60s: The Story of a Decade
2016
Truman Capote Anthologies
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Fantastic, Fall 1952
1952
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Points of View
1956
3
Stories of the Modern South
1977
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Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age
1978
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65 Great Tales Of Horror
1981
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First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
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Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker
2000
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Life Stories
2000
9
Writing Los Angeles
2002
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The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles