She poignantly replies, Maybe not.

Capote began his professional career writing short stories.

Capote described this symbolic tale as a poetic explosion in highly suppressed emotion.

Maybe a crime of this kind is ... in a small town.

Truman Capote introduced Monroe to Constance Collier, who gave her acting lessons.

Capote was cremated and his remains were reportedly divided between Carson and Capote's longtime companion, author Jack Dunphy (although Dunphy has maintained that he received all the ashes).

In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her second husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban born textile broker, who adopted him as his stepson and renamed him Truman García Capote.

As a lonely child, Capote taught himself both to read and to write before he entered his first year of school.

As such, the Truman Capote Literary Trust was established in 1994, two years after Dunphy's death.

Capote later claimed to have destroyed the manuscript of this novel but twenty years after his death, in 2004, it came to light that the manuscript had been retrieved from the trash back in 1950 by a house sitter at an apartment formerly occupied by Capote.

Fond of traveling in the United States, she was often seen with Truman Capote and Ava Gardner.

Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations.

In the spring of 1946, Capote was accepted at Yaddo, the artists and writers colony at Saratoga Springs, New York.

Capote's will provided that after Dunphy's death, a literary trust would be established, sustained by revenues from Capote's works, to fund various literary prizes, fellowships and scholarships, including the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin, the Smith College professor and critic who lost his job after his homosexuality was exposed.

Death Capote died in Bel Air, Los Angeles, on August 25, 1984, aged 59 from liver cancer.

Capote spent four years writing the book aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).

A milestone in popular culture, In Cold Blood was the peak of Capote's literary career it was to be his final fully published book.

Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood , a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home.

He died at the home of his old friend Joanne Carson, ex wife of late night TV host Johnny Carson, on whose program Capote had been a frequent guest.

Along with Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the style and devices of literary fiction onto fact based journalism.

Posthumously published early novel Some time in the 1940s, Capote wrote a novel set in New York City about the summer romance of a socialite and a parking lot attendant.

A collaborative book with Truman Capote containing portraits of many famous people of the twentieth century, including Pablo Picasso, Karen Blixen, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Mae West.

Capote also maintained the property in Palm Springs, a condominium in Switzerland that was mostly occupied by Dunphy seasonally, and a primary residence at the United Nations Plaza in New York City.

In 1939, the Capote family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and Truman attended Greenwich High School, where he wrote for both the school's literary journal, The Green Witch , and the school newspaper.

With an advance of 1,500, Capote returned to Monroeville and began Other Voices, Other Rooms , continuing to work on the manuscript in New Orleans, Saratoga Springs, New York, and North Carolina, eventually completing it in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Writing career Short story phase Between 1943 and 1946, Capote wrote a continual flow of short fiction, including Miriam , My Side of the Matter , and Shut a Final Door (for which he won the O. Henry Award in 1948, at the age of 24).

Crooked Pond was chosen because money from the estate of Dunphy and Capote was donated to the Nature Conservancy, which in turn used it to buy 20 acres around Crooked Pond in an area called Long Pond Greenbelt.

Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30, 1924 August 25, 1984), known as Truman Capote , was an American author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a nonfiction novel.

Dunphy died in 1992, and in 1994, both his and Capote's ashes were reportedly scattered at Crooked Pond, between Bridgehampton, New York, and Sag Harbor, New York on Long Island, close to Sagaponack, New York, where the two had maintained a property with individual houses for many years.