The author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, Truman Streckfus Persons, among the greatest American writers of the XX century with the nickname of Truman Capote, was born in New Orleans on 30th of September 1924.
Abandoned by his 
mother, neglected by his father, he lived a difficult childhood in which reading and writing were his faithful companions. Since his childhood, he showed unusual talents as a narrator, which he nurtured after his relocation in New York writing articles per Harper’s Bazaar and starting is work as a novelist, which led him to the attention of the general public with Miriam in 1945 and Other Voices, Other Rooms of 1948.
Spring had already started, when on 23rd of March 1949, the already well-known young novelist arrived in Ischia with his friend Jack Dunphy, for a trip which would have then been prolonged until almost summer. They stopped in Forio, near the renowned pension Di Lustro, where during those days another famous American writer was staying, Tennessee Williams. At International Bar of Maria Senese, Truman was meeting everyday a solitary Auden. Fascinated by the island, revealed to him as wild and beautiful, the American writer dedicated to it a report, “Ischia”, published on L’Europeo, and the inserted in the book Local Colors, which came out in 1954. During the forty-nine Ischitan days, Capote wrote his novel Summer Crossing, published in 2005, almost twenty years after the author’s death, on 25th of August in Bel Air.
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