![]() ![]() Drawn from the Library of Congress in Washington and the New York Public Library, the 390-page selection offers insights into the painstaking efforts that lay behind Capote’s seemingly effortless storytelling. ![]() Now, a selection of the mountain of handwritten notebooks, investigative ponderings, courtroom doodlings and sketches of the Clutter family farm which Capote amassed during five years creating In Cold Blood has been published in manuscript form. In his own estimation, Capote, never one to undersell himself, suggested that it marked the birth of the non-fiction novel. It would spawn the true crime genre that has since grown into a global industry. ![]() Its publication in 1966 propelled Capote overnight from bestselling novelist – author of Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tiffany’s – to international stardom. So begins In Cold Blood, Capote’s account of the November 1959 murder of a local farmer, Herb Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and two of his four children, Nancy and Kenyon. Millions of devotees of the book that emerged from these musings will instantly recognise how the sentence differs from the opening line of one of the great books of American 20th-century literature: “The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there’.” ![]()
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