Capote's first novel was "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948), which told the story of a boy growing up in the Deep South.
He belived he did not need to go to college to be a writer, since he was writing seriously since age 11.
When he was 17, Capote's formal education ended when he was employed at The New Yorker magazine. He attended Greenwich High School and never went to college. His mother was remarried to a successful businessman, moved to New York, and Truman adopted his stepfather's surname. His parents divorced when he was four years old and was then raised by relatives for a few years in Monroeville.
Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984 Novelist and playwright Truman Streckfus Person was born in 1924 in New Orleans to a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen.
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