Facts about In Cold Blood

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   The book chronicles the brutal murder of four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, a small farming community, in November 1959.

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   Capote's assistant and close friend Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, helped him conduct interviews for In Cold Blood in Kansas.

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   Originally serialized in The New Yorker magazine in 1965, In Cold Blood is widely credited with pioneering the nonfiction novel as a literary genre.

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   Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the two murderers profiled in In Cold Blood, were executed by hanging in Kansas on April 14, 1965, one year before Capote's book was published.

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   Truman Capote spent six years researching and writing In Cold Blood, which was published in 1966 and detailed the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas.

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