He could have chosen a different murder. At the time literary icon Truman Capote was looking for a crime to be the subject of his experimental new book, there was no shortage of headline-making family ...

When he was young, Andy Waldrop didn't care much for reading. But when forced to leaf through the true-crime classic In Cold Blood for a junior college English class, he became mesmerized. That was ...

Some fiction books are very powerful. But when a story is based on real events, it can hit even harder. And that's exactly the case with one book that continues to "shock" readers 60 years after it ...

(Reuters) - Truman Capote's true-crime novel "In Cold Blood" is getting renewed attention after the Wall Street Journal reported it has found evidence raising questions about some details in the ...

As most literate persons know by now, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is a searching and compassionate account of two disturbed young men who brutally murdered a Kansas family, were captured, tried and ...

But Capote was adamant that his own blend of “immaculately factual” reportage and fictional techniques represented the discovery of a new form, and this insistence tallied with Capote’s “quest to be ...

LANSING, Kan. The bodies of the two men executed for the 1959 murders of a Kansas family that became infamous in Truman Capote’s true-crime book “In Cold Blood” were exhumed Tuesday in an effort to ...