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Truman Capote

1924 - 1984

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Truman Garcia Capote ( kə-POH-tee; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions. Capote had a troubled childhood caused by his parents' divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple moves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Truman Capote is the 238th most popular writer (up from 688th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from United States (up from 737th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Writer.

Truman Capote is most famous for his novel, In Cold Blood, which was published in 1966. The book is based on the murder of a family in Kansas in 1959.

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Among writers, Truman Capote ranks 238 out of 7,302. Before him are Ray Bradbury, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, J. D. Salinger, Paul Heyse, Shota Rustaveli, and William Blake. After him are Lucian, Friedrich Schlegel, Juvenal, Ferdowsi, Prosper Mérimée, and Lou Andreas-Salomé.

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Among people born in 1924, Truman Capote ranks 9. Before him are George H. W. Bush, Charles Aznavour, Marcello Mastroianni, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Kim Dae-jung. After him are Robert Mugabe, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Eli Cohen, James Black, Süleyman Demirel, and Khamtai Siphandon. Among people deceased in 1984, Truman Capote ranks 8. Before him are Michel Foucault, Yuri Andropov, Richard Burton, Marvin Gaye, Paul Dirac, and François Truffaut. After him are James Mason, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, Mohamed Naguib, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Julio Cortázar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Truman Capote ranks 237 out of 20,380. Before him are Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Candice Bergen (1946), Josephine Baker (1906), Clark Gable (1901), and Johnny Cash (1932). After him are Linus Pauling (1901), James Madison (1751), Richard Chamberlain (1934), Sitting Bull (1831), Geronimo (1829), and George Gershwin (1898).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Truman Capote ranks 25. Before him are William Faulkner (1897), John Steinbeck (1902), David Woodard (1964), Pearl S. Buck (1892), Ray Bradbury (1920), and J. D. Salinger (1919). After him are Joseph Heller (1923), Dale Carnegie (1888), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Walt Whitman (1819), Paul Auster (1947), and Arthur Miller (1915).

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