In Cold Blood

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In Cold Blood is Truman Capote’s pioneering nonfiction novel that reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas family and is widely credited with helping create the true crime genre.

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instanceOf literary journalism
nonfiction novel
true crime book
author Truman Capote
controversy ethical issues in true crime writing
questions about factual accuracy
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReception widespread acclaim
firstSerializedIn The New Yorker
genre new journalism
nonfiction
true crime
hasAdaptation In Cold Blood (1967 film)
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In Cold Blood (1996 television film)
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influenced literary nonfiction
true crime genre
isAboutEventDate 1959-11-15
mainCharacters Alvin Dewey
Bonnie Clutter
Herb Clutter
Kenyon Clutter
linked to: Nancy Clutter

Nancy Clutter
Perry Smith
Richard Hickock
linked to: Perry Smith
mediaType print
narrativeStyle third-person omniscient
narrativeTechnique novelistic reconstruction of real events
notableFor helping establish true crime as a literary genre
pioneering nonfiction novel form
originalLanguage English
pages 343
placeOfMurder Clutter family farmhouse
publicationDate 1966
publisher Random House
researchMethod court records
extensive interviews
police files
serializationStartYear 1965
setInCountry United States
setInLocation Garden City, Kansas
Holcomb, Kansas
Kansas
setInYear 1959
subject Clutter family murders
capital punishment
criminal investigation
murder
psychological portrait of killers
timeToWrite approximately six years

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