Truman Capote
Truman Streckfus Persons died in the Bel Air neighbourhood of Los Angeles (California) on 25 August 1984. Capote immediately gained popularity with his debut novel Other voices, other rooms, but became greatly successful thanks to the film adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn. Capote's major work is In cold blood, which details a news story that greatly struck him, concerning the murders of four members of the Clutter family in a town in Kansas. The book is considered one of the first instances of a non-fiction novel, as it employs the language and conventions of a fictional novel to describe events that really happened.