The premiere of the film coincided with Truman’s birthday. In 2005, Bennett Miller made the film Capote, which tells the story of how the novel In Cold Blood was written (Voss, 2015). Many of his works were filmed, more than 20 films were shot, and the writer himself often acted in films. The body of Kapote was cremated, Joan Carson and Capote’s lover Jack Dunphy shared the ashes. Tumen Capote died on August 25, 1984, from cirrhosis of the liver, which was caused by narcotic toxicosis when he was 59 years old (Caudill, 2016). He played several roles in the cinema, and in 1977 received a nomination for a film award in the category: Best Acting Debut in a Feature Film (Marsh, 2016). Capote was an open homosexual and stood out for eccentricity in his manners.
Truman Capote was a childhood friend of the writer Harper Lee and became the prototype of Dill from her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1948, his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was released, which critics greeted with great enthusiasm. In 1949, his collection The Tree of the Night and Other Stories was published, and in 1951 was published the story Voices of Grass.
When Truman was 19 years old, Mademoiselle Magazine published his story Miriam, which was awarded the O. Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, where he lived the first eighteen years of his life. Accordingly, this paper strives to outline the author’s biography, summarize the novel, discuss the main characters, and provide a personal opinion to grasp the essence of the story. The book immediately became a bestseller and is still considered one of the best novels non-fiction in the world. The author defined his work as a new genre – the novel non-fiction. The founder of this genre is considered the American writer Truman Capote, who in 1965 wrote the first report in the form of the novel In Cold Blood. Non-fiction novel is a story about real people and real events, set forth using the dramatic techniques inherent in the book.
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