truman capote

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Определение truman capote в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: a US writer who wrote the short story Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was made into a successful film, and In Cold Blood in which he describes a true crime involving two men who murdered a whole family (1924-84). orig. Truman Streckfus Persons born Sept. 30, 1924, New Orleans, La., U.S. died Aug. 25, 1984, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Capote spent much of his youth in small towns in Louisiana and Alabama. His early works, in the Southern Gothic tradition, include the novels Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951) and the story collection A Tree of Night (1949). His later journalistic style was exemplified in the highly successful "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood (1966), an account of a multiple murder. Other works include the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958; film, 1961), the musical House of Flowers (1954; with Harold Arlen), and the collections The Dogs Bark (1973) and Music for Chameleons (1980)

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