Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of Sept. 30th
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It is the 273rd day of the year, leaving 92 days remaining in 2022.
On this date in 1924, the author Truman Capote was born.
Capote told his stories in direct, although in complex and descriptive prose. His stories combine dread and anxiety, and he allows the emotions of his characters to play a leading role. He wrote short stories, novellas, novels, and what he called the non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood.
He started writing at a young age, partly to escape an unhappy childhood and various relocations. He was born in New Orleans, but grew up in Mississippi, New York City, and Connecticut. He is said to have begun writing fiction at before age 10.
His first published short story, Miriam, gained him some fame after it appeared in the magazine Mademoiselle in 1945. That led to his getting a contract to write his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, a critical success that spend three months on The New York Times best-seller list. It was described as the part-autobiographical tale of a man trying to find his father and discovering his sexual identity while living in a decadent Southern community.
In 1957, Capote published a collection that included Breakfast at Tiffany's. It tells the story of one of his best characters, Holly Golightly, a young country girl who lives a high lifestyle in New York City. Capote called her "an American geisha." The work led Norman Mailer to term Capote as "the most perfect writer of my generation."
After that, he spent some six years researching and writing In Cold Blood, about the 1959 murder of a Kansas family by two drifters. The book, written in a narrative, journalistic style, was an international best-seller and brought Capote lasting acclaim.
He continued writing for magazines and living a celebrity lifestyle, but he never wrote another book.
Capote died in 1984.
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