That did happen. He may have made a connection with Perry, but Truman was ultimately a writer. A writer trying to get the story. -Gerald Clarke

 

That did happen. He may have made a connection with Perry, but Truman was ultimately a writer. A writer trying to get the story.


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He said at the time that the book scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. It changed him.

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Perry didn't want the title to be .

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Before In Cold Blood , Truman was a normal, if ambitious, person. -Gerald Clarke
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I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

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His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

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Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. Journalism was seen as a hack profession that had very little style, very little grace. After In Cold Blood , people saw real-life stories in a different way. -Gerald Clarke
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It was the most dramatic and probably the most important period in his life, and it changed him radically in all sorts of ways.

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