re: How did Truman Capote get away with being a literary giant for so long?

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He made his reputation on a true crime book that turned out to be largely fabricated.

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This is a comically bad take. He was winning literary awards in his 20s. Breakfast at Tiffany's was almost a decade before In Cold Blood. If anything, ICB ended his literary career as he devolved into a parody of himself and never finished another novel. He became more of a media figure and less of a writer, drinking, carousing, doing drugs and resting on his laurels for the rest of his life.