The Critical Response to Truman Capote

by John C. Waldmeir and Joseph J. Waldmeir

One of the most controversial American authors of the twentieth century, Truman Capote is best known as the author of In Cold Blood (1966), a work of literary journalism that recounts the slaughter of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. But he also wrote numerous short stories, dozens of nonfiction pieces for popular magazines, several other novels, and some works for Hollywood and Broadway. Unlike In Cold Blood, many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313306664
• ISBN13: 9780313306662
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"