Capote's biography
| 1924 | Born in New Orleans, Louisiana 0n Sep. 30. |
| His father was Arch Persons and mother Lillie Mae Faulk. | |
| Named as Truman Streckfus Persons. | |
| 1930 | Sent to Monroeville, Alabama because of discord between his parents. |
| 1931 | His parents got divorced. |
| 1932 | His mother got remarried to Joseph Garcia Capote. |
| 1935 | Changed his name as Truman Garcia Capote. |
| 1941 | Worked as a copyboy at The New Yorker. |
| 1944 | Fired from The New Yorkers because he aroused Robert Frost's anger at his reading. |
| 1945 | "Miriam" and "The Jug of the Silver" published in Mademoiselle; "A Tree of Night" in Harpar's Bazaar. |
| 1946 | Had affairs with Newton Arvin. |
| 1948 | Other Voices, Other Rooms published. |
| Began affairs with Jack Dunphy. | |
| 1949 | A Tree of Night published. |
| 1950 | Local Color published. |
| 1951 | The Grass Harp published. |
| 1953 | Wrote the screenplay Beat the Devil. |
| 1954 | House of Flowers staged on the Broad Way |
| 1956 | "A Christmas Memory" publised in Mademoiselle. |
| 1958 | Breakfast at Tiffany's published. |
| 1959 | Observations (with Richard Avedon) published. |
| Started to investigate the Clutters' murder case. | |
| 1960 | Wrote the screenplay The Innocents (with William Archibald) |
| 1963 | Selected Writings of Truman Capote published. |
| 1965 | "In Cold Blood" published in The New Yorker. |
| 1966 | In Cold Blood published. |
| A Christmas Memory published. | |
| Black and White Ball held. | |
| 1967 | The movie In Cold Blood released. |
| 1968 | House of Flowers published. |
| The Thanksgiving Visitor published. | |
| 1973 | The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places published. |
| 1976 | "Mojave" and "La Cote Basque" published in Esquire. |
| Provoked high society's antipathy. | |
| 1976 | "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCload" published in Esquire. |
| 1980 | Music For Chameleons published. |
| 1983 | One Christmas published. |
| Arrested for drunken driving. | |
| 1984 | Died on Aug. 25. |
| 1985 | Three by Truman Capote published. |
| 1987 | Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel published. |
| A Capote Reader published. |