In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by Truman Capote, published in 1966. It tells the story of the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. The book is based on extensive research by Capote, who interviewed
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Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.