Truman Capote

Truman Capote was a professional writer, making waves with his first novel of other Voices, Other Chambers. His morning novel Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) was transformed into a popular film, and his book In Cold Blood (1966) was a retelling version of the non-fiction novel. Capote spent his later years following celebrity and fighting drug addiction. He died in 1984 in Los Angeles, California.