The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. 

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”

This volume also includes Capote’s A Tree of Night and Other Stories, which the Washington Post called “unobtrusively beautiful . . . a superlative book.”

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season

Selected from across Capote's writing life, they range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; it is Sook who teaches Buddy the true meaning of good will. In other stories, an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore; a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York. Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time.

The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most colorful and fascinating literary figures.
Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and passionately. Spanning more than four decades, his letters are the closest thing we have to a Capote autobiography, showing us the uncannily self-possessed naïf who jumped headlong into the post–World War II New York literary scene; the more mature Capote of the 1950s; the Capote of the early 1960s, immersed in the research and writing of In Cold Blood; and Capote later in life, as things seem to be unraveling. With cameos by a veritable who’s who of twentieth-century glitterati, Too Brief a Treat shines a spotlight on the life and times of an incomparable American writer.

A major literary event: a collection of never-before-published short stories from one of America's most beloved writers

In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends on the Upper East Side discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, set in the rural South and the cosmopolitan New York of the 1940s, written by Truman Capote in his teens and twenties, the American master is already recognizable. This splendid collection offers readers the opportunity to see the confident first steps of one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers.

Música para camaleones, un libro que Truman Capote presenta como una obra de literatura documental, bucea con implacable lucidez en la poesía y el horror de la vida; es el espléndido resultado de una necesidad de comunicación directa entre lector y materia narrativa, que Truman Capote buscó febrilmente para conseguir una escritura «sencilla y límpida como un arroyo de montaña». Una prosa en la que pudiera mantenerse al margen del tema tratado, sin influir con su estilo, juicios y opiniones. En palabras suyas: hacer del lector un observador o, mejor aún, el testigo de una experiencia verdadera que, contada bajo tal óptica, resultara mucho más subyugante que si el autor la interpretase al modo clásico. El libro está dividido en tres partes. En primer lugar, seis breves piezas iniciales de magistral concepción y ejecución. Luego, una novela corta, Ataúdes tallados a mano, lleva a sus últimas consecuencias el enfoque testimonial de A sangre fría y relata la espeluznante historia de Quinn, un psicópata solipsista que se dedica a asesinar macabramente a los jurados que en un juicio han votado en su contra. Finalmente, siete Conversaciones y retratos, entre los cuales destacan el magistral texto en el que Capote acompaña a una asistenta en «un día de trabajo» limpiando domicilios, la estremecedora entrevista a un maníaco asesino recluido en San Quintín, la agridulce y famosa semblanza de Marilyn Monroe y, desde luego, el desgarrador autorretrato del autor y su imaginario gemelo, en el que afirmó: «Soy alcohólico. Soy drogadicto. Soy homosexual. Soy un genio.»