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2008 Kansas Reads: In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, is a statewide project that encourages Kansas adults to read, discuss and experience the same book.  The project is sponsored by the Kansas Center for the Book at the State Library and promoted by Kansas libraries, bookstores, and others from January 29 through February 29, 2008.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood - by Truman Capote


 
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BOOKS ABOUT TRUMAN CAPOTE

 

Clarke, Gerald. Truman Capote: A Biography (1988)

Malin, Irving (ed.). Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” (1968)

Nance, William L. The Worlds of Truman Capote (1970)

Parks, Ande. Capote in Kansas: A Drawn Novel (graphic novel) (2005)

Plimpton, George. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances,

            And Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career ((1997)

Powers, Kim. Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story (fiction) (2007)

Rudisill, Marie and James C. Simmons. The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote

            (2000)

Waldmeir, Joseph J. (ed.). Critical Essays on Truman Capote (1999)

__________. The Critical Response to Truman Capote (1999)

 

 

OTHER NONFICTION Crime Related NOVELS

 

DeLillo, Don. Libra (1988). Lee Harvey Oswald’s life in reference to the Kennedy

            assassination.

Mailer, Norman, Armies of the Night (1968). A 1967 Pentagon march protesting the

            Viet Nam war.

__________, Executioner’s Song (winner, 1980 Pulitzer Prize). Gary Gilmore insisted

            on being executed after his conviction for robbing and killing two men.

 Wolfe, Tom, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). Ken Kesey’s LSD commune.

 

 

OTHER TRUE CRIME NOVELS

 

Beattie, Robert, Nightmare in Wichita (2005). The BTK killer in Wichita.

Bugliosi, Vincent, Helter Skelter (1974). Charles Manson’s “family” murders Sharon

            Tate and others.

Larson, Erik, The Devil in the White City (2004). Multiple murders of young women

            against the backdrop of Chicago’s Columbian Exhibition in 1893.

Rule, Ann, Bitter Harvest (1997). A Prairie Village, Kansas woman doctor commits

            murder and arson.

 

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