1924/09/30 |
Truman Streckfus Persons is born at Tulane Hospital, New Orleans. At the time, his mother, Lillie Mae Faulk, lived at the Hotel Monteleone. |
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Hotel Monteleone |
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Truman Capote's Birthday |
1928/00/00 |
Truman Capote is sent to live with relatives in Monroeville |
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Monroeville |
Alabama |
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1946/07/00 |
Bradbury submits "Homecoming" to Mademoiselle. Editorial assistant Truman Capote rescues the manuscript from a slush pile and submits it for publication. |
Editor Assistant |
Homecoming (short story) |
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1948/00/00 |
During trip a to Haiti, Capote is inspired to write "House of Flowers" from his observations of island prostitutes. |
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House of Flowers (short story) |
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1948/01/00 |
"Other Voices, Other Rooms" is published by Random House, George Plimpton, Truman Capote, Doubleday, NY 1998, 471. |
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Other Voices, Other Rooms (novel) |
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1949/00/00 |
"A Tree of Night and Other Stories" is published. |
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A Tree of Night and Other Stories |
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1951/00/00 |
"The Grass Harp" is published. |
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The Grass Harp (novel) |
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1953/00/00 |
"Beat the Devil " is released. |
Screenwriter |
Beat the Devil |
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1954/12/30 |
Produced by Saint Subber, "House of Flowers" opens on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre. It will run played for 165 performances. |
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House of Flowers (musical) |
Neil Simon Theatre |
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1956/12/00 |
"A Christmas Memory" is published in Mademoiselle. |
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A Christmas Memory (short story) |
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1958/00/00 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's - published |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (book) |
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1959/11/16 |
Then one morning in November, 1959, while flicking through The New York Times, I encountered on a deep-inside page, this headline: Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain. |
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In Cold Blood |
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1959/12/00 |
Truman Capote and research assistant Harper Lee travel to Holcomb, KS in the winter of 1960 to research 'In Cold Blood'. |
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In Cold Blood |
Finney County |
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1966/01/17 |
Capote's "In Cold Blood" is published by Random House. |
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In Cold Blood |
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1966/11/28 |
Truman Capote throws a Black and White themed masquerade party in honor of The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham in the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel. |
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Plaza Hotel |
New York City |
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Capote's Black and White Ball |
1977/11/14 |
After 10 minutes of a rambling, incoherent commentary, Capote is asked to end a speech at Towson University in Maryland. He will explain the muddled talk was due to tranquilizers. "My goodness you'd have thought I killed the Lindbergh baby." |
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1978/07/00 |
During an appearance on the Stanley Siegal show, Capote is incoherent, having a hard time forming words. Some claim Capote had arrived for the interview okay but then took a Thorazine at the studio. |
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1980/00/00 |
"Music for Chameleons" is published. |
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Music for Chameleons (collection) |
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1984/08/25 |
Truman Capote, whose health in recent years has been shaky, and who has admitted to problems with both alcohol and tranquilizers, is found dead at the home of Joanne Carson, second wife of television star Johnny Carson. |
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