Here’s a roundup of some of The Wall Street Journal’s critics on work by—or inspired by—the American writer, who was born on Sept. 30, 1924. If Norman Mailer was, or at least sought to be ...

The tangled tale of Truman Capote's ashes is worthy of the ... Leamer says now. In Cold Blood Family Breaks Their Silence: Why They're Speaking Out Now About Infamous Slayings Four years after ...

Two typical Americans, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, methodically shotgunned a family of four to death for no apparent reason, on November 14, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas.

Truman Capote went from society darling to social ... of groundbreaking books like 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'In Cold Blood'", said Vanity Fair. Now 40 years after his death, he "returns ...

Truman Capote was fascinated by the most glamorous ... new novel following the success of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. "He ingratiated himself with the richest and most elegant ...

Truman Capote stood in front of the serial killer ... the genre launched by Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” and now perpetuated through podcasts, and docuseries, can be retrained to refocus ...

It was April 13, 1965, and Truman Capote was calling to say he wouldn’t be visiting condemned killers Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith on the eve of their executions. Charles McAtee ...

as Truman Capote wrote in “In Cold Blood”: “Four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.” A day shy of 45 years later, the tragedy lingers. It shows prominently in the lives ...