| Truman Capote  AKA Truman Streckfus Persons
Born: 30-Sep-1924
Birthplace: New Orleans, LA
Died: 25-Aug-1984
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Flamboyant author of In Cold Blood Wrote In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Father: Archulus Persons
Mother: Lillie Mae Faulk (d. 1954, suicide)
Father: Joseph Garcia Capote (stepfather)
High School: Trinity School, New York City, NY
The New Yorker copy boy
Smithers Addiction Treatment Center
Silver Hill Hospital
Driving While Intoxicated 1976
Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Fact Crime, for In Cold Blood (1966)
Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Motion Picture, for The Innocents (1962)
Adopted 1935
Tonsillectomy
Autopsy
Risk Factors: Epilepsy, Cocaine, Alcoholism, Depression
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Murder by Death (23-Jun-1976)
Author of books:
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948, novel)
A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949, short stories)
Local Color (1950, articles)
The Grass Harp (1951, novel)
The Muses Are Heard (1956, articles)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958, novel)
Selected Writings (1963, articles)
A Christmas Memory (1966, short stories)
In Cold Blood (1966, novel)
The Thanksgiving Visitor (1968, novel)
The Dogs Bark (1973, articles)
Music for Chameleons (1981, articles)
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