Truman Capote

In Cold Blood

Edgar Allan Poe Best Fact Crime 1966

by Truman Capote

National Bestseller 

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was...

A Christmas Memory

by Truman Capote

First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately...

Other Voices, Other Rooms

by Truman Capote & John Berendt

Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the...

Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote

by Truman Capote & Gerald Clarke

The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most...

Music For Chameleons

by Truman Capote

In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat...

The Grass Harp

by Truman Capote

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they...

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

by Truman Capote & Reynolds Price

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.

Ranging...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can...

ANSWERED PRAYERS

by Truman Capote

Although Truman Capote’s last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.

Tracing  the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes,...

Summer Crossing: A Novel

by Truman Capote

Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite,...