But Capote knew he wanted to be a writer and he wanted to be rich and famous.
And, he kept on writing.īOB DOUGHTY: Truman Capote once said: “I had to be successful and I had to be successful early.” He said that some people spent half of their lives not knowing what they were going to do. Instead, he started working for the New Yorker magazine. He stopped attending high school when he was seventeen years old. He was very smart but did not like classes. He renamed his stepson Truman Garcia Capote. Capote soon became the legal parent of Truman. She had remarried a Cuban-American businessman named Joseph Capote. As a child he would write for about three hours a day after school.įAITH LAPIDUS: When Truman was about ten years old he joined his mother in New York City. Putting his thoughts on paper helped him feel less lonely. This helps explain why Truman began writing. He said he felt he was much more intelligent and sensitive than others and feared that no one understood him. He later said that he felt very different from everyone around him. One of the characters in the book is based on Truman as a child.īOB DOUGHTY: Truman was a very lonely child. Her book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” would earn her a Pulitzer Prize. She would later grow up to be a famous writer. But he did become friends with the little girl who lived next door to his family. He lived with his aunts and cousins for several years. When he was a very young child, Truman’s mother sent him to live with her family in Monroeville, Alabama. Truman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in nineteen twenty-four. But he started out from more common roots. He traveled a great deal and divided his time between homes in New York City and Switzerland. Capote’s writing ability and his wild personality captured the interest of people all over the world.ĭownload PDF: Truman Capote, 1924-1984: Created the First Nonfiction Novel With 'In Cold Blood'įAITH LAPIDUS: Truman Capote became famous for living a wild and exciting life. This literary form combined factual reporting with the imaginary possibilities of storytelling. He invented a new kind of book called the nonfiction novel. Today we tell about Truman Capote, one of America’s most famous modern writers. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English.
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