This month I would like to share with you an audio from WNYC: Adam Begley talks about his biography of Updike, which explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultous personal life and love for "the American small town". I hope you enjoy it! When i…

Truman's Life Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on Sept 30th 1924 with the name Truman Persons to his seventeen year old mother Lillie Mae Faulk and father Archulus Persons (26). Capote's father, Archulus "Arch" Persons, worked as a clerk for a ste…