Truman Capote (1924-1984) was a world-renowned writer and socialite who spent part of his childhood in Alabama. His fame was cemented with the publication of In Cold Blood, his “nonfiction novel” about the murders of a Kansas family. This portrait was taken by noted New York photojournalist Roger Higgins in 1959.
Truman Capote
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division