Título: Truman Capote
Seção: Celebrity
Background: Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Capote was the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and salesman Archulus Persons. His parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mother's relatives. He formed a fast bond with his mother's distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk, whom Truman called "Sook". "Her face is remarkable - not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind", is how Capote described Sook in "A Christmas Memory" (1956).

Conteúdo: The critical success of one of his short stories, "Miriam" (1945), attracted the attention of the publisher Bennett Cerf, resulting in a contract with Random House to write a novel. With an advance of $1,500, Capote returned to Monroeville and began Other Voices, Other Rooms, continuing to work on the manuscript in New Orleans, Saratoga Springs, New York, and North Carolina, eventually completing it in Nantucket, Massachusetts. It was published in 1948. Capote described this symbolic tale as "a poetic explosion in highly suppressed emotion". The novel is a semi-autobiographical refraction of Capote's Alabama childhood. Decades later, writing in The Dogs Bark (1973), he commented:  Other Voices, Other Rooms was an attempt to exorcise demons, an unconscious, altogether intuitive attempt, for I was not aware, except for a few incidents and descriptions, of its being in any serious degree autobiographical. Rereading it now, I find such self-deception unpardonable.  The story focuses on 13-year-old Joel Knox following the loss of his mother. Joel is sent from New Orleans to live with his father, who abandoned him at the time of his birth. Arriving at Skully's Landing, a vast, decaying mansion in rural Alabama, Joel meets his sullen stepmother Amy, debauched transvestite Randolph, and defiant Idabel, a girl who becomes his friend. He also sees a spectral "queer lady" with "fat dribbling curls" watching him from a top window. Despite Joel's queries, the whereabouts of his father rem

user: what was his celebrity status?

assistant: The critical success of one of his short stories, "Miriam" (1945), attracted the attention of the publisher Bennett Cerf, resulting in a contract with Random House

user: What did Random house do?

assistant: contract with Random House to write a novel.

user: how he become a celebrity icon?

assistant: the most perfect writer of my generation".

user: was he involved in any charities?

assistant: Capote was well known for his distinctive, high-pitched voice and odd vocal mannerisms, his offbeat manner of dress, and

user: did he support any causes?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: who was he married to?

assistant: Capote was openly homosexual. One of his first serious lovers was Smith College literature professor Newton Arvin,

user: how did the public feel about his gayness?

assistant: He traveled in an eclectic array of social circles, hobnobbing with authors, critics, business tycoons, philanthropists,

user: who were some of his famous gay lovers?

assistant: Capote spent the majority of his life until his death partnered to Jack Dunphy, a fellow writer.