Truman Capote

Major Works

Novels

The Encyclopedia Britannica gives a description of four novels written by Truman Capote. His first Other Voices, Other Rooms, written in 1948 is of the depiction of a homosexual searching for his father and his own identity in the south. Followed by The Grass Harp, written in 1951,which is a story about escaping from realities in life to find refuge in a tree house and then returning to the real world. Breakfast at Tiffany’s written in 1958, is actually a novella about a young playgirl. In 1965 Capote wrote a nonfiction, In Cold Blood, based on six years of research of a Kansas family murder.