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Truman Capote (1924–1984)

Autor(a) de In Cold Blood

159+ Works 50,009 Membros 1,088 Críticas 180 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por Truman Capote

In Cold Blood (1965) 23,600 exemplares
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) 2,760 exemplares
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) 2,536 exemplares
Music for Chameleons (1980) 1,944 exemplares
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote (2004) 1,099 exemplares
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) 1,034 exemplares
Summer Crossing (2005) 1,028 exemplares
A Christmas Memory (1956) 1,026 exemplares
The Grass Harp (1951) 513 exemplares
The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967) 308 exemplares
A Capote Reader (1987) 291 exemplares
The Dogs Bark (1973) 239 exemplares
The Early Stories of Truman Capote (2015) 185 exemplares
A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949) 168 exemplares
Handcarved Coffins (1901) 126 exemplares
One Christmas (1983) 110 exemplares
First and Last (1995) 108 exemplares
My Side of the Matter (2005) 96 exemplares
Beat the Devil [1953 film] (1953) — Screenplay — 93 exemplares
The Muses Are Heard: An Account (1956) 75 exemplares
The Innocents [1961 film] (1961) — Screenwriter — 74 exemplares
The duke in his domain (2018) 74 exemplares
Children on Their Birthdays (1976) 58 exemplares
A House on the Heights (2002) 52 exemplares
Ni un pelo de tonto (1995) 51 exemplares
The Grass Harp [play] (1954) 46 exemplares
Great Modern Short Novels (1966) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
I Remember Grandpa (1985) 36 exemplares
Observations (1959) 34 exemplares
Miriam (1945) 28 exemplares
Marlon Brando: Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995 (1995) — Essay — 21 exemplares
One Christmas [1994 TV movie] (1999) — Writer — 19 exemplares
Local Color (1950) 19 exemplares
Indiscretion of an American Wife [1953 film] (1954) — Screenwriter — 17 exemplares
A Diamond Guitar (1950) 17 exemplares
A Christmas Memory [1997 TV movie] (1997) — Original book — 12 exemplares
Alle verhalen (2017) 12 exemplares
Color local (1992) 9 exemplares
Romanzi e racconti (1999) 9 exemplares
I racconti (1993) 8 exemplares
Un Natale e altri racconti (1985) 6 exemplares
Jug of Silver [short story] (1986) 5 exemplares
Yachts and Things — Autor — 5 exemplares
Tres contes (2015) 4 exemplares
Œuvres (2014) 4 exemplares
Hollywood (1993) 4 exemplares
Die schönsten Erzählungen (1997) 4 exemplares
American Short Stories (2003) 3 exemplares
Werke: 8 Bde: 8 Bände (2007) 2 exemplares
Inne głosy, inne ściany (2010) 2 exemplares
Atesteki Güve (2016) 2 exemplares
The Capote Tapes (2021) 2 exemplares
Shut a Final Door 2 exemplares
A Harpa de Ervas Livro 9 (2018) 2 exemplares
Christmas Memory, A 2 exemplares
נבל העשב 1 exemplar
Sithala le 1 exemplar
HOUSE OF FLOWERS. A MUSICAL. (1968) 1 exemplar
A Christmas Memory [1966 TV episode] (1966) — Screenwriter / Narrator — 1 exemplar
Der silberne Krug. Miriam. (1988) 1 exemplar
Trees of the Night 1 exemplar
Voyages en train (2015) 1 exemplar
Una casa a Brooklyn Heights (2007) 1 exemplar
Eblouissement 1 exemplar
Blind items 1 exemplar
Tři povídky (2000) 1 exemplar
Un été indien 1 exemplar
A fűhárfa (1977) 1 exemplar
Gosaria Tiffany'S-En (1989) 1 exemplar
Kindergeburtstag (2008) 1 exemplar
Morceaux choisis 1 exemplar
La Mujer 1 exemplar
1962 1 exemplar
AFTERWORDS 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Two Serious Ladies (1943) — Introdução, algumas edições793 exemplares
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 461 exemplares
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Contribuidor — 411 exemplares
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (1966) — Introdução — 407 exemplares
The New Journalism (1973) — Contribuidor — 334 exemplares
Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (2000) — Contribuidor — 298 exemplares
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Contribuidor — 291 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 267 exemplares
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contribuidor — 214 exemplares
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) — Contribuidor — 196 exemplares
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor, algumas edições152 exemplares
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Murder by Death [1976 film] (1976) — Actor — 116 exemplares
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Contribuidor — 110 exemplares
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algumas edições95 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (1982) — Contribuidor — 79 exemplares
A Treasury of Modern Mysteries, Volume 2 (1973) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
New York (1980) — Contribuidor — 58 exemplares
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
The Lucifer Society (1971) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Round the Christmas Fire: Festive Stories (2013) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny (2001) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Southern Christmas Literary Classics of the Holidays (1998) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
A New Southern Harvest (1957) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen (1982) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Various Temptations (1948) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1947 (1947) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Grass Harp [1995 film] — Original book — 3 exemplares
Racconti di cinema (2014) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
American Short Stories (1978) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Wives and Lovers — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
American Short Stories (Oxford Literature Resources) (1992) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Playboy Magazine | January 1989 | 35th Anniversary Issue (1989) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Stories of Sudden Truth (1953) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
少年の眼―大人になる前の物語 (光文社文庫) (1997) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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June 2015: Truman Capote em Monthly Author Reads (Fevereiro 2019)
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote (Bowie's Top 100) em 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Março 2016)

Críticas

This is the book that seems to set the standard for the true crime genre, so perhaps my expectation was too high. The book’s construction is like many novels, with frequent shifts of scene to follow different characters and their narrative journey. Capote tells the story of the murder of four members of a Kansas family by alternately following the family’s last day, the journey of the murderers toward their crime, their travels following the murders, the investigation, the trial, and the time on death row awaiting the execution date. Capote seems particularly sympathetic toward one of the murderers, Perry Smith, to the point that it ought to raise questions about his objectivity. There are no footnotes or endnotes for readers to verify the facts of the case.… (mais)
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cbl_tn | 465 outras críticas | Mar 17, 2024 |
Reason read; American author Challenge 2024. Truman Capote.
Books read by Truman Capote include; In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Christmas Memory, and now The Grass Harp.

It is set in the south and involves an orphan boy and two elderly sisters. It was published 1951. It is about family conflict, community, and the need to get back to life and let grievances go.

I didn’t mind the book but I also did not fully engage with it so I am going to call it so-so book. It was made into a musical and a play.

As Collin, 16 years old, stops to listen to the Indian grass whispering in the wind, below the cemetery on the hill, his 60-year-old aunt, Dolly, with whom he lives, tells him it is the grass harp telling the stories of those who are dead.
… (mais)
 
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Kristelh | 17 outras críticas | Mar 16, 2024 |
13-year-old Joel Knox leaves his aunt's house in New Orleans, where he has been comfortably cared for since his mother's death, ostensibly having been summoned by the father he has never met. His solo journey into the gothic environs of Southern decay leads him to an obscure backwater where he meets blighted characters haunted by the past, struggling with the present and dubious of the future. Joel has long been able to take himself to a "secret room" in his mind, and often has unbidden visions as well. He puts his observations of the new people in his life to good use, eventually realizing basic truths about himself and what matters to him. A brilliant short novel packed with elegant prose, atmosphere and humanity. If only Capote could have held on to the wise young man inside himself shown to us here.

"...only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves"
… (mais)
 
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laytonwoman3rd | 47 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
Agonized through this depressing curiosity. What did Capote expect of this? What did we expect of him?
½
 
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Lemeritus | 9 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |

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Obras
159
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66
Membros
50,009
Popularidade
#303
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
1,088
ISBN
907
Línguas
29
Marcado como favorito
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