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Capote’s difficult life contributes largely to his impact on gender non-conforming literature and the queer community. He faced many challenges growing up, from his sexuality to his lack of relationships with his family, but no matter how far he has enter, his childhood still affects him (Garson 81). His works were greatly impacted by his family problems, as he was “shaped forever by his doctrine that neither parent wanted him” (Garson 65). His stories and characters therefore deal with many of the struggles people, and homosexuals in general, faced at that day

This allowed his work to touch readers on a personal level, because many could relate to either what the characters were experiencing or what they desired. Capote struggled “all of his existence to find a place for himself in the earth, battling homophobia from childhood through his most famous years” (Dukes 142). His works expressed and represented this battle. This influenced homosexual literature because Capot

Published in:January-February 2015 issue.

Understanding Truman Capote
by Thomas Fahy
University of South Carolina Press
186 pages, $39.90

IN THE FINAL PAGES of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote’s most popular book, there are two derisive references to homosexuality. In one, Holly Golightly calls the policewoman who’s about to arrest her a “dreary, driveling old bull-dyke.” In the other, the closeted narrator relates that a man named Quintance Smith occasionally received a black eye from the “gentleman callers of a noisy nature” he entertained in Holly’s former apartment. In a story about charming, urbane people who otherwise reject restrictive attitudes toward sexuality, contemporary readers are likely to be surprised, if not offended, by these gratuitous passages. Truman Capote, himself so stereotypically gay, wrote often about homosexuality, but he never depicted it as something humanly fulfilling. For Capote, homosexuality was a topic that, through its shock value, could be used to challenge conventional ways of seeing the world, but he always pulled back from seeing it as a viable way of being in the world.

In Understanding Truman Capote, Thomas

Truman Capote

Truman Capote was also an American modernist writer. He was openly gay. Born in New Orleans on September 3rd 1924, he was to live with his mother for a very limited time. When his parents’ divorce was final, his mother left him to live with relatives in Monroeville. At the age of eleven, Capote began to write when others his age were out playing sports. Capote would attend public university there up until his mid teenage years when his mother and her new husband Joe Capote would mail for him in New York. Joe Capote would legally adopt Truman, modifying his last entitle to Capote. His father would transmit him to very expensive public institution, but he launch school was a waste of moment because by that time he knew he wanted to pursue a career as a scribe (JAP – Truman Capote Bio).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfWMAReGazY

Capote’s mother did not agree of Truman’s sexual preference.

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In 1943, he would begin labor as a reproduce boy at theNew Yorker Magazine with the hope of coming to manage his own apartment in New York City. He would publish his first piece

Truman Capote(1924-1984) was a notorious, back-stabbing liar who had a keen facility for making enemies. He tossed off outrageous, barbed comments like hand grenades, and his life – a non-stop orgy of drinking, parties and gossip – was a sordid mess, almost from day one. While attending prep university he worked as a copyboy for New Yorkermagazine, but was summarily fired after angering Robert Frost.

Capote was openly homosexual, with physical and vocal affectations that alienated many people. He was five-feet three-inches tall with a lisping, high pitched voice. Capote’s rehab treatments (for drugs, depression and heavy drinking) and various breakdowns frequently became public.

He hobnobbed with authors, critics, business tycoons, philanthropists, Hollywood and theatrical celebrities, royalty and members of high society, both in the U.S. and abroad. He was also an extraordinarily talented writer.

His novel Other Voices, Other Rooms(1948, on the New York Timesbest seller list for nine weeks) was a thinly veiled autobiography of his Alabama childhood. It introduced the traits Joel, a young male who, through a encounter with a transvestite, d