2. • Started writing at age 11
• Also wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• While working on ‘In Cold
Blood’, received lots of help
from Harper Lee, his childhood
friend and neighbor
• Harper Lee is the author of
To Kill a Mockingbird. The
character of Dill is based off
Truman Capote
3. • Truman Capote is responsible for starting the
genre of ‘true crime’. In Cold Blood made true
crime an interesting, successful, commercial
genre.
• However, in spite of all of Truman Capote’s
fame, there were those who protested the
book. People claimed that some of the events
in the book didn’t occur, or that Capote
dramatized what actually occurred.
4. • Capote’s life partner was Jack Dunphy, a
fellow writer
• Later in life Capote
became addicted to
alcohol and drugs
• He died in 1984 from
liver cancer
Jack Dunphy
5. Starting In Cold Blood: The Epigraph
Frères humains qui après nous vivez, N'ayez les
cuers contre nous endurcis, Car, se pitié de nous
povres avez, Dieu en aura plus tost de vous
mercis . . .
-Francois Villon
Ballade des pendus
6. Ballad of the Hanged
Brothers that live when we are dead
Don’t set yourself against us too
If you could pity us instead,
Then God may sooner pity you.
7. Ballad of the Hanged
Brothers that live when we are dead
Don’t set yourself against us too
If you could pity us instead,
Then God may sooner pity you.
