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==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
* 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons . | * 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons. | ||
* 1930 - He is left with elderly cousins in Monroeville, Alabama. | |||
* 1931 - His mother and father (Arch Persons) divorce on November 9th and his mother moves to New York. | |||
* 1932 - His mother marries Joe Capote and brings Truman to live in New York. | |||
* 1935 - He is adopted by his stepfather on February 14th. | |||
* 1939 - He and his family move to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attends Greenwich High School. | |||
* 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. | * 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. | ||