“Truman Capote, as obsessed with fame and fortune as he was with writing great words, was a writer who became as famous for his appearances on late-night talk shows as for his prose” (Paterson 1). Capote was a literary pop star at the height of his fame in 1966, having written classic books such as Other Rooms, Other Voices, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and In Cold Blood. Postmodernism was a literary period that began after World War II and represented a rejection of traditional writing techniques. He used fragmented sentences and questionable narrators, as well as many other unconventional techniques, to break previous barriers of literature. Truman Capote was a major player in the postmodern game, using his own broken childhood to sympathize with a convicted murderer and invent an entirely new genre of nonfiction literature known as the true crime genre. The first and perhaps most important fact about Truman Capote is that he did not have a happy, or even dignified, childhood. His parents separated when he was very young and he began traveling the South with his mother. During this time, Capote's mother locked him in hotel rooms for days at a time and gave waiters specific instructions to ignore his cries. Capote attributes his fluctuating anxiety to his mother locking him in hotel rooms. As an adult, Capote said of his mother, "She locked me up and I still can't get out." Her disturbing childhood is one of the forces that helped shape her personality and, ultimately, her voice on the page. Capote's childhood is also one of the things that made him so strongly linked to Perry Smith, the murderer in his "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood (Kim 4). During Capote's long interviews……middle of the paper……Its consequences. New York: Random House, 1966. Print.Kim, Lydia. "Critical Essay on 'In Cold Blood'." Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting analysis, context, and criticism on nonfiction works. Ed. David M. Galens, Jennifer Smith and Elizabeth Thomason. vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Network. May 15, 2014."Motif - Definition and Examples | Literary Devices." Literary devices. Np, nd Web. May 15, 2014.Patterson, Eric. "Truman Capote: Overview." Contemporary popular writers. Ed. Dave Mote. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Network. 16 May 2014."Point of view: definition and examples | Literary devices." Literary devices. Np, nd Web. May 16, 2014."Truman Capote." Gay and lesbian biography. Ed. Michael J. Tyrkus and Michael Bronski. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Network. May 15 2014.