Truman Capote

The most interesting writing I did during those days was the plain everyday observations that I recorded in my journal. I also recorded long verbatim accounts, local gossip. A kind of seeing' and hearing' that would later greatly influence my writing though I was unaware of it then, for all my formal' writing was more or less fiction-.
             When he was 10 years old, young Truman won a children's writing contest with his submission of "Old Mr. Busybody."" When he was eleven, Truman rejoined with his mother and her second husband Joseph Capote in New York. In New York, he where attended Greenwich High School, he was encouraged to write by his English teacher named Catherine Wood. Presently, his mother became distressed by his feminine tendencies and sent him to St. John's Military School. At St. John's the other cadets made his life miserable by mocking his southern accent and mocked his mannerisms.
             Capote wasn't well respected by his teachers either. He once stated that he was a "nuisance and a bother to most all my teachers."" His grades were so low his family began to worry that he might be retarded, but when a group of WPA researchers came to his school they found results converse to his family's viewpoints. Capote received the highest score they had ever seen. He had an IQ of 215. Surprisingly, young Truman still did not even contemplate going to college. Instead, he spent the winter in an apartment in New Orleans. During his stay in "The Big Easy-, he spent his time reading, writing short stories, and working on a novel. He was only seventeen years of age. At the same time, he was working at "The New Yorker- where according to St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; "He soaked up much of the literary heroines such as Willa Cather-. Capote's career at "The New Yorker- ended when he fell asleep during a speech from Robert Frost, who promptly showed indignation by heaving the book he was reading at Capotes head.