![]() ![]() Written largely in Verbier in Switzerland, the book came to obsess Capote - he was close to the murderers, friendly, perhaps more. ![]() She picks her way through Capote's sometimes exaggerated claims to discover a story that remains relevant to this day. ![]() Initially Capote planned an article for the New Yorker magazine, but when the two murderers were caught, Capote realised he had something much bigger on his hands - the non-fiction novel, the very first one he declared, and the book that led to an explosion in true crime. Together they began conducting rigorous interviews on the impact of this murder. Travelling with him was his friend, Harper Lee, soon to win a Pulitzer prize for To Kill a Mockingbird. And Capote set off to Kansas, believing this was exactly the story he'd been waiting for. The sheriff was quoted as saying it might be the work of a psychopath. In November 1959 Truman Capote read a newspaper headline: Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain. ![]()
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