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Although much is known about the mature Truman Capote - his literary genius and flamboyant life-style - details of his childhood years spent in Monroeville, Alabama, have remained a mystery. ""Truman Capote's Southern Years"" explores Capote's formative years, the abandonment by his mother, and his early life in the care of elderly relatives. In Monroeville young Capote formed significant bonds and played childhood games with his cousin, Jennings Faulk Carter, and next door neighbour, Nelle Harper Lee. Through the tales told here by Carter, readers discover the lively imagination and the...

Readers are well acquainted with Truman Capote s meteoric rise to fame and his metamorphosis from literary "enfant terrible" to literary genius, celebrity author, and dispenser of venomously comic witticisms. It is also well-known that he spent his formative years in the south Alabama hamlet of Monroeville, and that he was abandoned there by his mother to be cared for and then to care for elderly relatives. Yet details of those years have remained sketchy and vague.
In Monroeville young Capote formed significant bonds and played childhood games with his cousin, Jennings Faulk Carter, and...