Capote

• 'Other voices, other rooms' was a novel which had a controversial image for promotion showed he wasn't afraid to push boundaries- "If he isn't young, he's dangerous".
• He was born to a teen mother and was neglected by his parents, causing him to feel abandoned, especially when they moved him to Alabama to live with his mother's relatives during his parents' divorce.
• He moved to New York with his mother and step father, where his mother's alcoholism escalated, elevating the abuse Capote faced as a child.
• He was adopted by his stepfather
• "I was writing sort of serious when I was eleven... I was obsessed by it"

  He felt different to other boys his age
• He met Harper Lee in Kansas and they became good friends and they both were socialists
• Capote struggled with the academic and social aspects of school, he was often teased and bullied for being 'effeminate' by students and his mother
• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' film released in 1961- "Actually the style is an evolvment of from one to the other"
• After the success of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', Capote said "Actually I'm no where near reaching what I want to do, where I want to go".
• He released his first memoir in 1956
• In 1966, after 'In Cold Blood' was release, he held his infamous Black&White ball
• In the 70s Capote indulged in heavy drinking and drug abuse and he was in and out of rehab
• In 1975 a 'tell all' novel about Capote was released, which only furthered his spiral as he was ostracised from New York society
• The 1978 infamous interview he did while he was heavily intoxicated was seemingly a cry for help
• He died in 1984 from liver disease and inflamed veins due to drug intoxication