Additional Resources for In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood Further Reading

Capote, Truman, A Capote Reader, Random House, 1987.

Capote provides an introduction to his writing, short stories, nonfiction articles, and excerpts from novels, excluding In Cold Blood.

Plimpton, George, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career, Doubleday, 1997.

In this flashy, gossipy biography culled from interviews, Plimpton, a high-society member of the literati himself, chronicles Capote from his early days as a new writer through the glory days following In Cold Blood to his last years as an exaggerated version of the figure he was.

Rudisill, Marie, Truman Capote: The Story of His Bizarre and Exotic Boyhood by an Aunt Who Helped Raise Him, Morrow, 1983.

Capote was sent to live with this branch of his mother's family, in Alabama, when he was a child.Here he met his significantly older cousin, Sook, whowould become his favorite caretaker.