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Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and salesman Archulus Persons.[1] His parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where,for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mother's relatives. He formed a fast bond with his mother's distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk, whom Truman called "Sook". "Her face isremarkable — not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind," is how Capote described Sook in "A Christmas Memory". In Monroeville, he was a neighbor and friend of author HarperLee, who wrote the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, with the character Dill being based on Capote.[3][4][5]

As a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before he entered his first yearof schooling.[6] Capote was often seen at age five carrying his dictionary and notepad, and he began writing fiction at the age of 11.[7] He was given the nickname Bulldog around this age,[8]possibly a phonetic reference and pun of "Bulldog Truman" to the fictional detective Bulldog Drummond popular in films of the mid-1930s.

On Saturdays, he made trips from Monroeville to the nearby city ofMobile on the Gulf Coast, and at one point he submitted a short story, "Old Mrs. Busybody", to a children's writing contest sponsored by the Mobile Press Register. Capote received recognition for hisearly work from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 1936.[9]

In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her second husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born textile broker, whoadopted him as his stepson and renamed him Truman García Capote. However, Joseph was convicted of embezzlement and shortly afterwards, when his income crashed, the family was forced to leave ParkAvenue.

Of his early days, Capote related, "I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about 11. I say seriously in the sense that like other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano...