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Truman Garcia Capote
(September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984), born Truman Streckfus Persons, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. After his parents divorced when he was four he was brought up by relatives in Monroeville, Alabama where he met Harper Lee. The two remained friends and neighbours and in Lee’s famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird Capote is portrayed as the character Dill. In 1933 Capote’s mother married New York businessman Joseph Capote and after officially being adopted by his step father, changed his surname. Capote began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of one story, Miriam (1945) resulted in a contract to write the novel Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood, a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. After the success of his early works, Capote began to move in higher and higher social circles. Unusual for the time, he was openly gay, and would be seen with fellow authors, critics, business tycoons and members of high society, both in the U.S. and abroad. However eventually this was to lead to his downfall and, according to the coroners, he died of "liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication" at the age of 59. Source: iblist.com