Description:By the age of 21, Truman Capote was seen as the most promising young talent of 1945. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, proved to be an amalgamation of his journalistic talent, his astute observations, and his skill at creating lifelike dialogue and characterizations. Learn more about Capote with this edition of Bloom's Modern Critical Views. This title, Truman Capote, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Truman Capote through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Truman Capote, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.