Truman Capote - Continental Drifter
He might have been made in America but Europe played a key role in shaping Truman Capote's life, his writing and his masterwork In Cold Blood.
A version of the piece appeared in The New European.
Born in New Orleans, raised in Alabama, discovered as a writer in New York, Truman Capote was a true American original. Which makes it all the more unusual that Europe had such an influence upon the author and his work. It was while he was an ocean-away from his homeland that the man responsible for Br…
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