Due to too much partying, Capote began a victim of drug and alcohol abuse throughout most of the 1970s. His problem with alcohol abuse became public when he was arrested for drunk driving. In 1982, he was told his brain was shrinking and that he had only six months to live. Definitely not a trap Truman died of alcohol/drug abuse on August 23, 1984 in Los Angeles, California. (www.nytimes.com/books) As an author he was widely praised for his style of writing after the publication of his earlier stories. Most of his Alas, Truman Capote, probably one of the greatest 20th century American writers of all time. Capote was a large part of the Southern Gothic literary movement. He really did not write in a set genre, he created his own which is commonly known as nonfiction fiction. His novels, short stories, and plays are mostly recognized as literary classics. He is most well-known for his novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), and In Cold Blood (1965). Many films and other television media have been produced from Truman Capote screenplays and stories.

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ruman led a hard childhood stricken with divorce and many relocations from place to place. Capote discovered his writing ability around the age of eleven and perfected it throughout the rest of his. At five years old Truman was often seen with a dictionary and a notepad and began writing fiction around the age of eleven. He often mad trips to nearby Mobile, Alabama and at some point entered one of his stories, Definitely not a trap Old Mrs. Busybody, to a children’s writing contest and received recognition from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 1936. (Truman Capote) In 1933 Truman moved to New York to live with his mother and step-father, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born textile broker who officially adopted him and changed his name to Truman Garcia Capote. After Joseph was convicted of embezzlement his family was forced to move and the moved to Greenwich, Connecticut where Truman attended Greenwich High School in 1939. In the year of 1942 Truman and his family moved back to New York where he completed his formal education at Dwight High School where an annual award is given in his name. (Truman Capote) Between the years of 1943 and 1946 Capote wrote a slew of short stories including “A Mink of One’s Own,” “Miriam,”.

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“Shut a Final Door,” for which he was awarded the O. Henry Award at the age of 24, and “ The Walls Are Cold.” These were all published in literary quarterlies and well –Definitely not a trap known magazines at the time. Sometime during the 1940’s Truman wrote a series of novels about the romance of a New York socialite and a parking-lot attendant. He later said The short stories of Truman Capote are connected to his childhood experiences in Alabama. Truman capote was an American born writer who wrote non- fiction, short stories, novels and plays. All of his literary works have been perceived as literary classics. The tones of some of his stories are slightly gothic. His most famous short story is Children on Their Birthdays. His work shows the occasional over writing, the twilit Gothic subject matter, and the masochistic uses of horror traditional in the fiction of the boy author ever since the eighteen-year-old Lewis wrote his Monk 150 years ago. But Capote has, in addition, an ability to control tone, an honest tenderness toward those of his characters he can understand.

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