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      • As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
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  2. Jul 7, 2023 · Captivating readers upon its 1966 publication, the book became an instant sensation, and remains regarded as one of the greatest works of true crime literature. What was the real story behind Capote’s famous book, and what was it about this particular case that captivated Capote so much?

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    • Truman Capote Believed He Was Inventing A New Genre with in Cold Blood.
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    • Writing in Cold Blood Took A Tremendous Personal Toll on Truman Capote.

    According to an interview published in The New York Times in January 1966, Capote considered In Cold Blood the first book of its kind. “It seemed to me that journalism, reportage, could be forced to yield a serious new art form,” Capote told interviewer George Plimpton. Capote called his experiment a “nonfiction novel,” which he defined as “a narra...

    When Capote first arrived in Holcomb, Kansas, on December 15, 1959—one month to the day after four members of the Clutter family were shot to death in their home—to begin his research for In Cold Blood, his reputation didn’t exactly precede him. According to The New Yorker, Capote’s publisher, Random House, had triedto get the FBI to grease the ski...

    In Cold Blood was a huge hit with readers and critics alike, but the book’s success came at an enormous personal cost for its author. “No one will ever know what In Cold Blood took out of me,” Capote told his biographer, Gerald Clarke. “It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.” In t...

  3. In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel [1] by the American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas .

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    • 1966
  4. Mar 20, 2013 · The key theme in the publicity campaign he masterfully engineered for “In Cold Blood”—published as a four-part series in The New Yorker in the fall of 1965, and subsequently as a book was that,...

  5. Sep 13, 2024 · In Cold Blood, nonfiction novel by American writer Truman Capote, published originally as a four-part series in The New Yorker magazine in 1965 and in book form in 1966. Capote used the techniques of fiction to tell the true story of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas by a pair of drifters and of the subsequent capture, trial, and ...

  6. Jan 19, 2015 · In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences, first published in 1965, charts the story of the case from the crime to the execution by hanging of Hickock and Smith - it...

  7. 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 no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

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