He could have chosen a different murder. At the time literary icon Truman Capote was looking for a crime to be the subject of his experimental new book, there was no shortage of headline-making family ...

In 1956, three years before he began writing his bestselling true-crime book “In Cold Blood,” the already famous author Truman Capote wrote a heartwarming short story about his childhood Christmases ...

But Capote was adamant that his own blend of “immaculately factual” reportage and fictional techniques represented the discovery of a new form, and this insistence tallied with Capote’s “quest to be ...

“Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans—in fact, few Kansans—had ever heard of Holcomb,” wrote Truman Capote in his seminal nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood. That all changed on ...