For almost 40 years, those first words of the book “In Cold Blood” have been ... 1959 — the night this house witnessed, as Truman Capote wrote in “In Cold Blood”: “Four shotgun blasts ...

It was April 13, 1965, and Truman Capote was calling to say he ... vulnerable moments — scenes that never made it into Capote’s book. “I got to know them as human beings,” McAtee said ...

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, follows a real historical crime from the 20th century. In 1959, the Clutter family was brutally murdered in Kansas. The book follows the aftermath of both the murders ...

He's published three books, each a psychologically-focused study of a complex artist: Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote Almost Wrote Answered Prayers(2011, Oxford); An Emergency in Slow Motion ...