Biography
The writer Truman Hood was famous for the books of "Breakfast at Tiffany" and "Cold Kill" and became the classic of American literature of the twentieth century. The author's works have formed the basis of dozens of shields, the most famous of which is considered a Oskarone tape with Audrey Hepburn in the lead role. The writer for many years was an integral part of the American secular party, in which he was considered a genius with the habits of the crank.Childhood and youth
The future classic was born in 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, named Truman Strekfus. His mother was called Lilly May, and Father - Arkulus, and young people were quite frivolously treated to the upbringing of the Son, often leaving that by the care of their relatives.
The surname of the hood writer took from the stepfather, the Cuban businessman, who appeared in the family, when the boy was 9 years old. Up to this point, due to the divorce of parents, the child lived in Alabama for some time in Alabama and was granted to himself. Truman learned himself to read and write at an early age.
In the southern Alabamian town, Monrovill, the boy met Harper Lee, living next door. The children became inseparable friends and retained this connection for many years, although there were opposites: the sensitive Truman seemed even softer on the background of the bolder of Harper.
Writers recognized that they found the prototypes in each other for their works. So, the hood inspired to the image of a dilla in the famous novel "kill the casting", and Harper served as the prototype of Idabel, the heroine "of other votes, other rooms." Getting married in 1933, the mother takes her son and moves with him to New York. From the 1935th, an officially adopted Truman is a surname, which will later become famous.
Since childhood, the boy knew how to fascinating stories than earned popularity in a private school in Manhattan, which was attended for 3 years. In an effort to make a child, the parents in 1936 send it to the Military Academy, and this year the writer remembers as a catastrophe.
Trumen Hood finished school years in Connecticut, where the family moved in 1939. The guy was frivolously referred to classes, paying attention to only those disciplines to which the soul was lying. Already then, he stands out from the crowd with his individuality and forms around himself a bohemian youth party, which is going in the evenings to drink wine, dance or go on New York nightclubs. Higher education Truman did not receive.
The first job of the young man was settled, being a graduation class student. He managed to get a place in the famous Literary magazine "New Yorker". And although the guy was engaged in copying newspaper clippings and sorting images, he had the opportunity to get acquainted in writing circles and publishing business.
Creation
Writing the stories of the hood began in early childhood, and in 1936 he even took part in the literary competition, a newspaper of the Alabamian town of Mobile. The mastery of the young author was assessed and noted by award. At that time, the boy constantly walked with a notepad and a pencil, writing history. A man told that the desire to become a writer found in childhood and deliberately devoted the craft a few hours a day after returning from school.While working in New Yorker, Truman made several unsuccessful attempts to publish their stories in the journal. The young man left the publication to focus on writing work, giving her full-time. For this, the hood moves to the city of his childhood, where the work on the debut novel "Summer Cruise" begins. The book was written in 1943, but the first publication took place only in 2005.
The heroes of the works of the hood often became people "not from the world of this", consonant with the writer himself. The author made talking about himself after the appearance of the story "Miriam" in the magazine "Mademoiselle" in 1945.
The story of a strange little girl attracted publishers, and Randge House signed a contract with the author for a big book, which became the novel "Other votes, other rooms", released in 1948. The work was waiting for success, it lasted on the list of bestsellers for more than 2 months, and the author became a fashion figure, which readers threw letters.
After a successful debut, Trumen Hood continues to write stories, and in 1951 the author of the author comes out - the "Voice of Grass", which tells about the disadvantaged people who are afraid to grow and hide from around the world on a large tree. In the 50s, the hood begins to try himself as a playwright, cooperating with Hollywood. The main success of this interaction is the screening of Novels "Breakfast at Tiffany", supplied by Blake Edwards in 1961. The history of the New York Tusovover Holly Golightli brought the author of world glory.
The vertex of the writer's activities of Trumen Hood became a documentary novel "Cold-level murder", published in 1965. The author worked on the work of 5 years, leaving the crime and being closely familiar with the actors, including killers. The novel was published by parts in the magazine "New Yorker" and brought recognition of critics and commercial success.
The bibliography of the hood includes dozens of works, many of which have been based on the basis of films and sorted by quotes.
Personal life
Truman Hood did not hide sexual orientation and was an open gay. For this reason, a man had no wife and children. The main person in his personal life hood was the writer Jack Daphni, acquaintance with which happened in 1948.
Men were not like each other and conducted a different way of life: the hood was sophisticated and refined, Jack - courageous and brutal. Daphni, who had an unsuccessful marriage with a woman, preferred a secluded lifestyle, and Truman sparkled and fondanged at parties without which he did not think. Despite the differences, men were 35 years old and parted at the initiative of Jack, who was tired to put up with the addiction of the partner to alcohol and drugs.
After parting from Daphni, the hood plunged into depressions, which he tried to drown out frequent fleeting novels, but they did not bring comfort. The man rotated in a secular party, communicating with the stars of show business, rich entrepreneurs and representatives of creative bohemia.
The writer was the attorney and the favorite of women of the highest light, who found a careful interlocutor in him with a subtle soul. In the biography of a man there is friendship with Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy and Baib Palee. Among the rich beautiful women were considered fashionable to communicate with Truman Hood, as evidenced by numerous photos of the prosecut with celebrities.
Death
Recent years, Truman Hood almost did not engage in literary activities. Probably there is a reason to talk about the creative crisis that has come in the last decade of life. Over the years, the problems associated with drugs and alcohol aggravated. The attempts undertaken in rehabilitation centers ended in disruptions. In addition, the man developed a persecution.In 1984, the physical condition of the writer was noticeably worsened, which was aggravated by an overdose, with which the hood fell into the hospital Long Island. To restore sincere equilibrium, Troubon went to California to a long-standing girlfriend Joan Carson. In her house in Los Angeles on August 25, 1984, the writer died in the 60th year of life. The cause of death served as a liver disease, complicated by intoxicating drugs.
After death, the body of the prose was cremated. The dust of Trumen Hood once was stolen, and in 2016 the remains of the writer were sold with an auction to an unknown person for $ 45 thousand.
Bibliography
- 1943 - "Summer Cruise"
- 1948 - "Other Voices, Other Rooms"
- 1949 - "Tree of Nights and other stories"
- 1950 - "Local Coloring"
- 1951 - "Voices of grass"
- 1956 - "Muses heard"
- 1958 - "Tiffany breakfast"
- 1965 - "Cold Clamp"
- 1973 - "Dogs bark"
- 1980 - "Music for chameleon"