Clutter Farm of Capote's 'In Cold Blood' notoriety

Holcomb, Kansas (KS), US

This is the farm which was owned by Herbert Clutter in western Kansas. On November 15, 1959, he and three members of his family were murdered at the hands of parolees Dick Hickock and Perry Smith during an attempted robbery. The crime was subsequently detailed in Truman Capote's novel "In Cold Blood".

Clutter Farm of Capote's 'In Cold Blood' notoriety

Holcomb, Kansas (KS), US

Farms - Misc, Murder Sites, Historical
Links: en.wikipedia.org
By: roadgeek

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Comments

ocodgs

@ 2016-12-08 22:53:13

A clarification.
Truman Capote never won the Pulitzer Prize. His monumental work "In Cold Blood" gave him many satisfactions but inside them was not the Pulitzer. The one who won that award was her great friend Harper Lee for her excellent novel "Kill a Nightingale". She accompanied Capote to Holcomb for the entire duration of her investigations into the family Clutter murders. Harper Lee was a big help, to the point that many think she was a kind of co-author of "Cold Blood." Surely from there is born confusion.

Anonymous

@ 2017-05-11 02:02:49

People have often accused Truman of co- authoring To Kill A Mockingbird to which both he and Harper Lee have denied. To what extent each helped the other...who knows....but the two life long friends had a parting of ways after the release of In Cold Blood.