(Truman Streckfus Persons, New Orleans, 1924-Los Angeles, 1984). American novelist. Early Writer, he became known at the age of twenty-four with Other voices, other spheres (1948), which achieved a certain success and generated important expectations about his future work. After publishing several novels with symbolic and oniric content, Capote dedicated himself to working on his style and consolidating his novelistic conception, resulting in the publication of Breakfast at Tyffany's (1958).
His interest in journalism and his intense collaboration with the New Yorker magazine brought him closer to the discipline of investigative reporting, resulting in his famous work Cold Blood, creator of the non-fiction novel genre. For this novel, next to Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe, Capote is considered one of the fathers of the new journalism, that combines narrative fiction and reporting journalism, within a new conception of the relation between reality and fiction.
In Chameleon Music there is a phrase that has since been associated with Capote: "I am an alcoholic .I am a drug addict.I am gay.I am a genius."