The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote

Like many Southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s, who as a group created the richest, most  memorable body of regional literature in the history of American letters, Truman Capote eventually  journeyed northward. As the years passed, Capote’s moorings to his Southern past grew  weaker and weaker, and he deliberately cut himself off from the people and places that provided  fodder for much of his early fiction. The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote is a thoughtful reflection