Truman Capote

I aspired to be Truman Capote long before I read any of his works or even knew his name. This is because as far back as I can remember, I wanted to write a true story that read like an engaging novel. As a young girl I wrote short stories about things that happened around me and I modeled them after the fictional story books I read. I thought I was doing something unheard of. I didn't know that somebody had already accomplished this feat until I was in my early teens and read Truman Capote's In