Truman Streckfus (Persons) Capote (1924 - 1984)

Truman (Persons) Capote is Notable.

Truman Streckfus Persons, known as Truman Capote, was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

Biography

Author, Screenwriter, Playwright, Actor.

Truman Capote, born in New Orleans (1924). Even as a child, Capote wanted to become famous. He moved with his mother to New York City and applied to the prestigious Trinity School. He was given an IQ test as an entrance exam, and he scored 215, the highest in the school's history. Capote said: "I was having 50 perceptions a minute to everyone else's five. I always felt nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing."

• According to Truman himself:
• . . . But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
  • Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

Sources

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3VXD-FW2 : accessed 8 December 2016), Truman Persons in household of Jenny Faulk, Monroeville, Monroe, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 3, sheet 5B, line 86, family 115, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 42; FHL microfilm 2,339,777.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7B5-LR7 : 1 March 2020), Turman Capote in household of Joseph Capote, Greenwich Town, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1-55, sheet 8A, line 21, family 144, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 496.

• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPCR-HFL : 26 November 2014), Truman Capote, 25 Aug 1984; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV57-1356 : accessed 13 July 2020), Truman Capote, California, United States, 14 Sep 1984; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing , born-digital text.

• Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for Truman Capote (30 Sep 1924–25 Aug 1984), Find A Grave: Memorial #1175, citing Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

See also:

• Wikipedia: Truman Capote
• Wikidata: Item Q134180, en:Wikipedia
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:37JC-J3Z : accessed 2016-12-08), entry for Truman Streckfus /Persons Capote/.
• Biography.com
• Gerald Clarke, Capote: A Biography, Simon & Schuster, New York, January 1, 1988.

• George Fuller Walker, Persons Lineage (1951). (Original research done on 1957 copy bound in thick leather borrowed from Eva TURPIN Persons of Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia, USA)