Ruins of Capote Childhood Home

All that remains of Truman Capote's childhood home in Monroeville, Monroe County, are some foundation walls. Although Capote only lived in Alabama for a short time, southern themes and experiences informed much of his later writing.

Ruins of Truman Capote boyhood home in Monroeville, Alabama
Courtesy of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress

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Ruins of Truman Capote boyhood home in Monroeville, Alabama