Everyone knows Truman Capote thanks to his bestselling novels Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965). But, there is another thing the author made headlines for back in the 1950s and ...

The two famed authors had a close bond. — -- Two of the best-known authors in American literary history started out as best friends. Harper Lee, who died today at age 89, and Truman Capote, who ...

To Kill a Mockingbird was the first novel Harper Lee had published, but it wasn't the first one she wrote. That first effort, titled Go Set a Watchman, was submitted to a publisher in 1957. When the ...

He could have chosen a different murder. At the time literary icon Truman Capote was looking for a crime to be the subject of his experimental new book, there was no shortage of headline-making family ...

Truman Capote stood in front of the serial killer’s house, with its “bilious green” paint and shutters, and trimmed hedges and marveled at its ordinariness — 2020 Lamar, the address in Pasadena, Texas ...