“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor” -Capote ("Truman Capote About the Author”). Two interesting aspects of Truman Capote’s life are his childhood and his career as a writer. Truman Capote’s childhood was much like the character Dill’s life in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. After all, the character was meant to represent Truman. Capote was born in 1924 in New Orleans (“Truman Capote About the Author”) as Truman Streckfus Persons (“Truman Capote”). At a young age Capote was abandoned by his mother, and was raised by family such as elderly aunts and cousins in Monroeville, Alabama (“Truman Capote About the Author”). This is where he met his childhood friend, Harper Lee (“Truman Capote Biography-Author”). Much like the