Enigmatic, flamboyant, genius, and self-aggrandizing, Truman Capote, a fireball and a master of writing, was the neighbor to the late Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird) and the prominent entry in the New Journalism movement of the 1960s, which took hold of literary acts such as Tom Woolf (The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test) and John Hersey (Hiroshima), with his opus In Cold Blood. A native of New Orleans, Capote’s prowess as a literary practitioner began early with his short story collection Other Voices, Other Rooms, and continued well writing both articles and short stories–which garnered him insurmountable praise from his peers, jealousy from contemporaries, and awards from the establishment–well into the end of his life, at the age of fifty-nine (as a result of debilitating alcoholism).