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Truman Capote

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Truman Capote

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Auction Date:2011 Dec 07 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
American writer whose works include novels, stories, plays, and reportage. He introduced the genre of the nonfiction novel with In Cold Blood (1966). In Cold Blood, a chilling account of the senseless, brutal murder of a Kansas family, is generally considered his finest work. Original short story written by Capote, signed in the upper right, “Truman Capote,” one lightly-lined page, both sides, 8 x 10.5, dated January 8, 1936. Capote writes a story called, “Katie the Elevator Girl,” for a school English assignment. Story begins: “It was a bright hot July morning, as a rather sagged [sic] faced old woman was walking into a very ? Bank. As she went into her locked room, she met Jake the janitor of the building of which they exchanged morning greetings. Then she said to herself doggone I forgot to pack up Herbert's red flannels (for this was her husbandd [sic]). I bet he will be as sore heck [sic]." The story continues with a character called Sadie slipping on some soap across a marble floor towards the clerk's desk, at which point the story becomes ever more surreal, with Sadie heading to the top of the building, where she exchanges jokes with the freight elevator man, and tells a story about a fortune-telling incident. In fine condition, with mild overall toning.

Although Capote’s most enduring shorter work, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, was published in 1958, he had begun writing fiction age twenty-two years earlier in 1936 at the age of 11. As he recalled, “I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about 11. I say seriously in the sense that like other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano or whatever, I used to go home from school every day, and I would write for about three hours. I was obsessed by it.” Here is one of those earliest works by Capote, written in his own hand for an assignment when he was a student at The Trinity School in New York City. A wonderful example of a budding literary style and humor which he would perfect over the next forty-eight years.
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