A Christmas Memory
First published in 1956,
this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's
rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic.
Seven-year-old
Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss
Sook Falk exclaims: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an
unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship between two
innocent souls--one young and one old--and the memories they share of
beloved holiday rituals.
When Buddy (Eric Lloyd) is abandoned by his
parents at the age of seven, he is dumped in the south at the small-town
home of some older unmarried cousins. Without friends of his own age,
Buddy develops a close friendship with one of the older, simpler ladies,
Sook (Patty Duke) and the two undertake many
adventures together. At Christmas time, they bake 31 fruit-cakes which
they give as Christmas presents, even mailing them to President
Roosevelt and Jean Harlow! Although Buddy is eventually urged to move
on with his life by his incessant cousin Jennie (Piper Laurie),
the memories of his friendship with Sook lives with him forever. Based
on the original novel by Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory is a
heartwarming story of love and friendship.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote was an American
writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised
literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood
(1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and
TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and
screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a
salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced
when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in
Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and
write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York
City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a
Cuban-born businessman. Mr. Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his
last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school. After
graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job
as a copy boy at The New Yorker. During this time, he also began
his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced
him into a circle of literary critics. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms,
published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for
nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote
used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the
camera.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood,
a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was
published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide
success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community.
After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol
addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59.
https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-truman-capote-american-writer-4781127
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