Debasing the moral currency.

Novelist and short story writer                          

Selected Works:


Miriam - 1945 Short story; published in Mademoiselle magazine
Other Voices, Other Rooms - 1948 Novel
A Tree of Night and Other Stories - 1949 Collection of short stories
The Grass Harp - 1952 Novella
The Grass Harp - 1952 Play
Beat the Devil - 1953 Original screenplay
House of Flowers - 1954 Broadway musical
The Muses Are Heard - 1956 Nonfiction
A Christmas Memory - 1956 Short story; published in Mademoiselle magazine
The Duke in His Domain - 1957 Portrait of Marlon Brando; published in The New Yorker; Republished in Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker - 2001
Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1958 Novella

The Innocents - 1960 Screenplay based on Turn of the Screw by Henry James; 1962 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, to Capote and William Archibald for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Selected Writings of Truman Capote - 1963 Midcareer retrospective anthology; fiction and nonfiction

In Cold Blood - 1966 Nonfiction novel; Capote's second Edgar Award, 1966, for Best Fact Crime book

The Thanksgiving Visitor - 1968, Holiday story published as a gift book
The Dogs Bark - 1973 Collection of travel articles and personal sketches
Mojave and La Cote Basque, 1965 - 1975 Short stories from Answered Prayers.
Unspoiled Monsters and Kate McCloud - 1976 - Short stories from Answered Prayers; published in Esquire
Music for Chameleons - 1980 Collection of short works mixing fiction and nonfiction
One Christmas - 1983 Holiday story published as a gift book
Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel - 1987 Published posthumously
A Capote Reader - 1987 - Omnibus edition containing most of Capote's shorter works, fiction and nonfiction
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote - 2004 Anthology of twenty short stories
Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote - 2004Edited by Capote biographer Gerald Clarke

Summer Crossing - 	Previously lost first novel, 1943 - Excerpt published  posthumously in the 2005-10-24 issue of The New Yorker
                          

Mother Mae Faulk
Father Archelaus Persons, divorced 1928                          

In 1933, at age nine, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her second husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born textile broker, who adopted his stepson and renamed him Truman García Capote.

Truman was a neighbor and friend of Harper Lee, who grew up to write To Kill a Mockingbird, with the character Dill based on Truman.