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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1949
  • Latest Book:
    November 2015
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Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised in various parts of the south, his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of which were published. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following his spell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and travelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.“Inte...



  • Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfitsan orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladieswho one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tre...





  • Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape -- her poignancy,...



  • On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no cl...



  • Illustrated in full color. Another masterpiece by the great American writer Truman Capote is brought to an audience of all ages. Buddy and his closest friend, his eccentric, elderly cousin, Miss Sook - the memorable characters from Capote's A Christm...



  • In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. “An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean and cool . . . [with a] superb, near-perfect pit...



  • Truman Capote's boyhood Christmas memoir, rereleased with a beautiful new packaging. The classic story of Truman Capote's childhood Christmas ritual is more endearing than ever in this newly redesigned package. In celebration of A Christmas Memo...








  • Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. • Includes the story La Cote Basque featured in the major FX series...



  • Divided into six parts, this volume contains twelve short stories, two novellas, thirteen travel sketches, reportage, celebrity profiles, seventeen essays, and several pieces previously unpublished in book form...



  • Immortalised in the film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote's classic 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is full of sharp wit. Its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, slightly madcap era of early 1940s New York....



  • A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.“To best experience Capote the stylist, one must g...



  • “Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.” -- The Washington Post Book World “A great breezy read . . . with Capote’s tradema...



  • Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, "The Grass Harp" tells the story of three endearing misfits -- an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies -- who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a c...



  • Truman Capote's boyhood Christmas memoir rereleased in a beautiful new package, which includes a CD with the audio version of the text. The classic story of Truman Capote's childhood Christmas ritual is more endearing than ever in this newly ...



  • The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories pro...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Truman Capote has published 17 books.

Truman Capote does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Early Stories of Truman Capote, was published in November 2015.

The first book by Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was published in January 1949.

No. Truman Capote does not write books in series.