Truman Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright best known for Breakfast at Tiffany's, a novella about the New York café society girl Holly Golightly, and In Cold Blood, which he labeled a nonfiction novel about the murder of a Kansas farm family. He is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, and several of his short stories and novels have been praised as literary classics, including those gathered in Early Stories of Truman Capote. In In Cold Blood he rebuilt the killings in a Kansas home through years of research, blending reporting with the craft of fiction.
