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Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and raised in various parts of the South, he and his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of which were published. After leaving school at fifteen he worked for the New Yorker, his first- and last-regular job. Following this Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms(1948). He lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and traveled in Russia and the Orient. Capote wrote many highly acclaimed books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood(1965), which immediately became the center of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music of Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.