About the book: year / Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) - novelist, essayist, film screenwriter, born in the south of the USA, in New Orleans. Having made his debut in 1948 with the novel Other Voices, Other Rooms, Capote became one of the most prominent American writers of post-war America. Capote's heroes, strange and unsettled people, no matter where they live - in a mysterious, gloomy, decaying house in the middle of nowhere or in the very center of noisy, crowded New York - always strive for authenticity and purity of human feelings.