Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" documented the killings of a family of four in rural Kansas on this day in 1959 ...

In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape ...

Kate Summerscale is the best-selling author of " The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher " and several other acclaimed works of British ...

Alton High's Redbirds football team achieved a perfect 10-0 season in 1970, winning the Southwestern Illinois Conference ...

On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began ...

Every time I see "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" on TV I think of Dublin-born writer Maeve Brennan. Why? Because she may have been the inspiration for Audrey Hepburn’s sexy and totally eccentric – and ...

Truman Capote, the Southern-born literary ... according to Gerald Clarke in his book “Capote: A Biography.” Clarke wrote that Capote felt one pivotal scene he wrote was a mistake in that ...

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (179 pp.)—Truman Capote—Random House ($3.50). Holly Golightly, 18, is a cross between a grown-up Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame. A piquantly wacky ex-hillbilly who ...

For years, Truman Capote had been proudly telling anyone within hearing that he was writing the ‘greatest novel of the age’. The book was about a group of the richest, most elegant women in the world.