Truman Capote

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(Kehoe). He later changed his last name to his stepfather’s, Capote, because he thought it sounded better (Kehoe). Truman had a very hard childhood. He was often brought on his mother’s dates and one time had to watch his mother being strangled until he broke it up by screaming hysterically (Kehoe). He then moved in with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama (Fournier). He was always writing and he loved it. He won his first prize at age ten for his story “Old Ms.Busybody,” where he took second place in a newspaper competition (Fournier). While growing up in Alabama he met Harper Lee, which was going to be a lifelong friend, whom would help him research his future book In Cold Blood (Fournier). As he started to write more and more he became known and at age twenty-one he published his short story “Miriam” which won him a Henry O. Award (CAPOTE). He wrote many short stories but his real success was his nonfiction novel In Cold Blood which was written in 1966. After In ...

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place where there were a lot of radical, moral, and national changes happening. During the 1960s many things were not happening as customs in the past had preferred. The sixties had brought the cold war, “hippies”, equality for African Americans and much more. The cold war had been going for a little while and tension was strong in America, people were looking for peace and for everyone there was a different way to go about finding it. The “hippies” had been a group that fought for peace and equality for everybody. They often did drugs and expressed their feelings openly which was not something that the United States culture was used too. These ideas were new and the older ...

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