Truman Capote (1924–1984)
Auteur de De sang-froid
A propos de l'auteur
Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984 Novelist and playwright Truman Streckfus Person was born in 1924 in New Orleans to a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen. His parents divorced when he was four years old and was then raised by relatives for a few years in Monroeville. His mother was remarried to a afficher plus successful businessman, moved to New York, and Truman adopted his stepfather's surname. He attended Greenwich High School and never went to college. When he was 17, Capote's formal education ended when he was employed at The New Yorker magazine. He belived he did not need to go to college to be a writer, since he was writing seriously since age 11. Capote's first novel was "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948), which told the story of a boy growing up in the Deep South. "The Grass Harp" (1951) is about a young boy and his elderly cousin discovering that some compromise is necessary for people to live together in a community and was adapted to screen in 1996. The play "The House of Flowers" (1954) is a musical set in a West Indies bordello. Capote then wrote, "Breakfast at Tiffanys" (1958), which tells the story of how Holly Golightly goes to New York seeking happiness. Capote became preoccupied with journalism and, sparked by the murder of a wealthy family in Holcomb, Kansas, began interviewing the locals to recreate the lives of the murderers and their victims. The research and writing for this novel, "In Cold Blood" (1966), took six years for him to complete. Other works of Capote's include the classic "A Christmas Memory" (1966), which is an autobiographical account of a seven-year-old boy, his cousin, and an eccentric old lady, "Music for Chameleons" (1981), which is a collection of short pieces, interviews, stories and conversations that were published in several magazines, and "One Christmas" (1982). On August 26, 1984 in Los Angeles, Truman Capote died of liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication. Published after his death were "Conversations With Capote" (1985) and "Answered Prayers: The Untitled Novel" (1986). (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Roger Higgins
Séries
Œuvres de Truman Capote
Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir: With the lost photographs of David Attie (2015) 25 exemplaires, 1 critique
Os Cães Ladram. Pessoas Públicas E Lugares Privados - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2006) 9 exemplaires
House of Flowers [short story] 7 exemplaires
Marilyn & Co: Begegnungen mit Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor und vielen anderen (2009) 5 exemplaires
Yachts and Things — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Breakfast at Tiffany's: Level 3 (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers)) (2010) 5 exemplaires, 1 critique
Fra i sentieri dell'Eden (in I racconti) 4 exemplaires
Großes Kurzgeschichten- Buch I / Big Book of Modern Stories. Englisch- Deutsch. (1980) 3 exemplaires
Cinco relatos para mujeres 3 exemplaires
Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory - ABC Stage 67 2 exemplaires
In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's 2 exemplaires
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote Publisher: Vintage 2 exemplaires
Baum der Nacht Skizzen und Stories 2 exemplaires
Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker 2 exemplaires
HOUSE OF FLOWERS. A MUSICAL. 2 exemplaires
In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's 2 exemplaires
Shut a Final Door 2 exemplaires
My Side of the Matter {short story} 2 exemplaires
Integrala prozei scurte (Romanian Edition) 2 exemplaires
Thanksgiving Visitor and Christmas Memory, The 2 exemplaires
Dejuni a Can Tiffany 1 exemplaire
breakfast at tiffanys 1 exemplaire
Blind items 1 exemplaire
Trees of the Night 1 exemplaire
Yoru no ki (夜の樹) 1 exemplaire
Un été indien 1 exemplaire
In Cold Blood - Inglês 1 exemplaire
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS´S 1 exemplaire
Cu sânge rece 1 exemplaire
Hommikueine Tiffany juures 1 exemplaire
Se Oyen Las Musas [The Muses Are Heard] 1 exemplaire
Desayuno's en Tiffany's 1 exemplaire
Tiffany de chóshoku wo (ティファニーで朝食を) 1 exemplaire
1962 1 exemplaire
Morceaux choisis 1 exemplaire
Truman Capote Reads Scenes from In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. 1966. 33 1/3… (1966) 1 exemplaire
One Christmas: The Thanksgiving visitor 1 exemplaire
Morgunverður á Tiffany's 1 exemplaire
Un albero di notte (in I racconti) 1 exemplaire
Un ricordo del nonno (in I racconti) 1 exemplaire
GIFT OF THE MAGI, THE AND OTHER STORIES 1 exemplaire
Il falco senza testa (in I racconti) 1 exemplaire
Miss Bobbit (in I racconti) 1 exemplaire
Padron Miseria (in I racconti) 1 exemplaire
נבל העשב 1 exemplaire
Sithala le 1 exemplaire
Desde la biblioteca: Truman Capote 1 exemplaire
Zajtrk pri Tiffanyju 1 exemplaire
Glasba za kameleone 1 exemplaire
AFTERWORDS 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contributeur — 464 exemplaires, 4 critiques
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (1966) — Introduction — 413 exemplaires, 5 critiques
The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors (1994) — Contributeur — 325 exemplaires
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contributeur — 268 exemplaires, 5 critiques
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contributeur — 216 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter (2019) — Auteur — 203 exemplaires, 5 critiques
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) — Contributeur — 200 exemplaires, 3 critiques
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 184 exemplaires, 1 critique
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contributeur — 179 exemplaires, 2 critiques
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 161 exemplaires, 5 critiques
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires, 1 critique
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Contributeur — 114 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1: From Sherlock Holmes to A Clockwork Orange to Jo Nesbø (2017) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires, 3 critiques
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires, 1 critique
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires, 1 critique
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 3 — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
The Grass Harp [1995 film] — Original book — 3 exemplaires
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenenderdig verhalen uit de moderne wereldliteratuur (1975) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Capote, Truman
- Nom légal
- Persons, Truman Streckfus
- Date de naissance
- 1924-09-30
- Date de décès
- 1984-08-25
- Lieu de sépulture
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Cause du décès
- Liver disease
- Lieux de résidence
- Monroeville, Alabama, USA
New York, New York, USA
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA - Études
- Greenwich High School
Dwight School - Professions
- writer
- Relations
- Lee, Harper (friend)
Murakami, Haruki (translator)
Dunphy, Jack (lover)
Agnelli, Marella (friend) - Organisations
- The New Yorker
- Prix et distinctions
- O. Henry Award (1946)
O. Henry Award (1948)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1959)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1964)
Membres
Discussions
June 2015: Truman Capote à Monthly Author Reads (Février 2019)
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote (Bowie's Top 100) à 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Mars 2016)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 164
- Aussi par
- 67
- Membres
- 50,939
- Popularité
- #300
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1,095
- ISBN
- 907
- Langues
- 29
- Favoris
- 182