August 25, 1984 (aged 59) Los Angeles, California , United States Occupation novelist, playwright, story writer Writing period 1943–1984 Literary movement Southern Gothic Notable work(s) In Cold Blood , Breakfast at Tiffany's Influences [show] William Faulkner , Edgar Allan Poe , James Agee , E. M. Forster , Gustave Flaubert , Ivan Turgenev