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==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
In 1946 Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (51). In | * 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons . | ||
* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication. | |||
* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam". | |||
* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties. | |||
* 1949 - ''[[A Tree of Night and Other Stories]]'' was published. Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer. | |||
* 1954 - The first important film work, a screenplay ''[[Beat the Devil]]'', was written in collaboration with John Huston, a Hollywood director. | |||
* 1958 - Capote reader's most favorite story - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', which ended the ten-year period of the sencond cycle - was published. | |||
* 1966 - ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' appeared in print. It was an innovative hybrid of journalistic fact and creative fiction. This novel marked the peak in Capote's career. Capote hosted a masked ball for approximately five hundred of his closest friends in New York at the Plaza Hotel. | |||
* 1975 - He allowed ''Esquire'' magazine to print portions of his unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'' as an attempt to prove that he was still alright and was not an alcohol and drug addict. | |||
* 1980 - Capote published the last work of his life entitled ''[[Music for Chameleons]]''. | |||
* 1984 - The writer died in Bel-Air, CA, on August 25. | |||
==Additional Reading about the Author== | ==Additional Reading about the Author== | ||