"Only somebody suddenly realized I was serving up a local scandal as fiction, and the second installment never appeared. "The first installment appeared one Sunday under my real name, Truman Streckfus Persons," Capote told the Paris Review in the 1950s. Busybody" and entered it in a children's writing contest held by the Mobile Press- Register. When he was 10 years old, he wrote a roman a clef called "Old Mr. I had the highest intelligence of any child in the United States, an IQ of 215."Ĭapote found his refuge in literature, in the crafting of sentences that gleam like the blues and golds in paintings by Vermeer. "I might as well have been a deaf mute growing up there," he once said. The townspeople, Capote said, were "unprovided with any semblance of a cultural attitude" and his parents would sometimes lock him in a room while they went out. He grew up in the small town of Monroeville, Ala., the son of Julian Persons, a New Orleans businessman, and Nina Faulk, a former Miss Alabama. Further tests that will take a week to 10 days are required to determine the actual cause of death.Ĭapote lived his adult life in New York and on national television. On Saturday, at about noon, Joanne Carson, Capote's host in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, went to his room to wake him for a swim and "noticed he looked pale." There was no pulse. This time his prayers were answered far too soon. And then, with his book complete, Truman Capote told friends he hoped to die. Capote wanted, like Balzac, to transform his extensive knowledge of high society into a work of both portraiture and imagination. He died two days ago, hours after working on the final chapter of what he hoped would be his final book. The first of his prayers, the desperate prayers of his childhood for fame and literary reputation, were quickly answered. That may have been Truman Capote's trouble in the end. More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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