Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1924 and was raised in
various parts of the south, his family spending winters in New
Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of
fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of
which were published. He left school when he was fifteen and
subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first -
and last - regular job. Following his spell with the New Yorker,
Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other
Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another,
in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and travelled in
Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highly praised
books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949),
The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958),
In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of
a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for
Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of
which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August
1984.
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