Truman Capote

American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Capote gained international fame with his "nonfiction novel" IN COLD BLOOD (1966), an account of a real life crime in which an entire family was murdered by two sociopaths. The Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama area provided the setting for much of Capote's fiction. [Read more]

In Cold Blood
Signet, 1965 (PhP 80.00)
No book in recent history has excited such enthusiasm as the spectacular bestseller "In Cold Blood." In his recreation of the brutal slaying of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansan--the police investigation that followed--the capture, the trial and execution of the two young murderers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, Truman Capote plumbed the minds and souls of real-life characters.

The Grass Harp
Vintage International, 1980 (PhP 120.00)
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 china tree, "The Grass Harp" manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, "that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life." This volume also includes Capote's "A Tree of Night and Other Stories," which the Washington Post called "unontrusively beautiful, a superlative book."