He soon gained a contract with Random House, who advanced him $1500 for his first novel. Henry award for Best First-Published Story. In 1942, Capote published his first short story, "Miriam", in the magazine Mademoiselle, which won him the 1946 prestigious O. There, he attracted the attention of many of the city's literary and social elite, as much for his flamboyant wardrobe as for his mature, evocative prose. While Capote was intelligent and highly focused on writing, he was uninterested in academics, and dropped out of his fourth year of high school when offered a 2-year contract position as a copy boy at the New Yorker. Truman soon joined the couple in New York City, where he adopted his stepfather's surname and began an uneven career as a student in both private and public high schools in New York and Connecticut. In 1933, Lillie Mae, who then called herself Nina, remarried to a successful Cuban businessman, Joe Capote. He later drew on his memories of Alabama for some of his most famous writing. The details of the rural South, its oppressive poverty and wise, headstrong characters, impressed on the young Capote's imagination. He taught himself to read at age four and by age eight was "practicing" at writing in daily sessions. An unusual and observant child, Truman was determined to become a writer. When Faulk and Persons separated in 1928, he was left to be raised by relatives in Monroeville, Alabama, where he began what would become a lifelong friendship with Harper Lee, later the author of the renowned novel To Kill A Mockingbird. Capote's early life was marked by instability and poverty. Truman Capote was born Truman Steckfus Persons in New Orleans on Septemto 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and Archulus ("Arch") Persons, a dissolute salesman.
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