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 ...

Once upon a time, Truman Capote flocked among the Swans. Until, that is, they became his subject matter, the In Cold Blood author's keen eye and witty barbs no longer quite so entertaining once ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Famed writer Truman Capote, southern born and bred but now part ... After reading a newspaper article about the just occurred November 14, 1959 cold blooded murders of the Clutter family in ...

The shuttered prison in Kansas, the United States where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood were executed is now a tourist attraction. From now, former wardens and ...