He could have chosen a different murder. At the time literary icon Truman Capote was looking for a crime to be the subject of his experimental new book, there was no shortage of headline-making family ...

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is to be remade for TV. The Weinstein Company has acquired the rights to the true crime book, and plans to adapt it for an event TV series. Pax Enterprises, Inc The ...

The historical society in Lansing, Kan., hopes to attract visitors to the city of about 11,000 residents by welcoming visitors to the former Kansas State Penitentiary. By Michael Levenson Truman ...

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. In 1972, on “The Tonight Show,” Johnny ...

See the "Modern Family" star playing the infamous "In Cold Blood" author. Truman Capote lives! Okay, that’s not entirely true. But Jesse Tyler Ferguson is giving us the next best thing, playing the ...

Truman Capote’s death in 1984 didn’t come as a shock, even at the age of 59. The acclaimed author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood spent the decade preceding his demise publicly sliding ...

But Capote was adamant that his own blend of “immaculately factual” reportage and fictional techniques represented the discovery of a new form, and this insistence tallied with Capote’s “quest to be ...