In Cold Blood is a
1965 book by
American author
Truman Capote. It details the 1959 slaying of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from
Holcomb,
Kansas, his wife, and two children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murders before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. Bringing his childhood friend and fellow author
Harper Lee (
To Kill a Mockingbird) along, together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, were arrested not long after the murders, and Capote ultimately spent six years working on the book. It is considered the originator of the
non-fiction novel and the forerunner of the
New Journalism movement.
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