“I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.” — Truman Capote

“I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.” — Truman Capote

It’s his birthday today. In Cold Blood put him on the map for all time. His journalism/literature hybrid told the terrifying story of a random murder in Holcomb, Kansas, where an entire family was annihilated in their own home, for absolutely no reason. Capote embedded himself so deeply in the story his entire life was on hold until the murderers (whom he “befriended”) were executed. This took years. His health was wrecked during the endless wai…