Truman Streckfus Persons, known as Truman Capote, was an American author, screenwriter and playwright, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold B...
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, Primetime Emmy Award for Special Classification Of Individual Achievements
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, BAFTA Award fo...
Movies
Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, Murder by Death
Star Sign
Libra
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His characters were often emotionally isolated and/or confused about their sexuality
I don't care what anybody says about me, as long as it isn't true.
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Do you want to know the real reason why I push my hair down on my forehead? Because I have two cowlicks. If I didn't do that it would make me look as though I had two feathery horns.
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[on Humphrey Bogart] He had an image of sophisticated virility and he projected it remarkably well. And with such humor. At last, he had such style that it doesn't wither, it doesn't age, it doesn't date. Like Billie Holiday.
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[on Marlon Brando] No actor of my generation has possessed greater natural gifts; but none other has transported intellectual falsity to higher levels of hilarious pretension.
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New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
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[on Marilyn Monroe] She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a flamingo.
The greatest thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it.
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I think I've written one masterpiece in my career and that's "In Cold Blood". It is a masterpiece and I don't care what anyone says. I think I've also written three or four short stories that are as good as anything written in the English language.
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It's a scientific fact ... For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.
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Fact
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Despite his diminutive size, he was said to have been an excellent arm wrestler.
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"Capote" was actually his stepfather's last name.
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His life was touched by tragedy. His mother committed suicide and, according to the coroner's report, Capote himself died from "liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication".
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 128-130. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
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According to George Plimpton's biography "Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career," one of Capote's eccentricities was to walk into a liquor store and ask for a bottle of "Justerini and Brooks" scotch, which is more familiarly known as J&B, which is one of the most famous brand names in the liquor business. Even if a merchant told him the store did not carry the brand (as most people didn't know what the initials stood for), even when it was likely it did carry the brand, Capote would not call it "J&B", even if it meant that he went without it.
The film rights to his novella, "Hand Carved Coffins" were held by producer Dino De Laurentiis and the project was offered to directors Michael Cimino and David Lynch but to date, the project has not been produced.
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Although he wrote only a handful of books during his lifetime, he produced 25 full-length plays, two novels, 60 short stories, more than 100 poems and an autobiography.
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Was a distant relative (seventh cousin once removed) of playwright Tennessee Williams.
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Longtime partner was Jack Dunphy.
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He is one of several famous and tragic figures from history to be featured on the sleeve artwork of the album "Clutching at Straws" by rock band Marillion (released in 1987).
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His most famous work is the book, "In Cold Blood."
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Is the inspiration for the character "Dill" in Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". He and Lee were childhood friends.
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Frequently visited legendary New York disco Studio 54 in the late '70s.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Children on Their Birthdays
2002
short story
A Christmas Memory
1997
TV Movie story
In Cold Blood
1996
TV Mini-Series book - 2 episodes
Other Voices, Other Rooms
1995
novel
The Grass Harp
1995
novella
One Christmas
1994
TV Movie short story "One Christmas"
Hello Stranger
1992
story
American Playhouse
1992
TV Series writings - 1 episode
Il fascino dell'insolito
1980
TV Series short story - 1 episode
Camera Three
1977
TV Series story - 1 episode
The Glass House
1972
TV Movie story
Der kopflose Falke
1971
TV Short short story
Trilogy
1969
screenplay / stories "A Christmas Memory", "Miriam" and "Among the Paths to Eden"
$10 Million
