Capote enters party holding the hand of Katharine Graham who wears a decorative mask. Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30, 1924 - August 25, 1984), known as Truman Capote, was an American author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics. He earned the most fame with In Cold Blood, a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. A milestone in popular culture, In Cold Blood was the peak of Capote's literary career; it was to be his final fully published book. In the 1970s, he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows. He died in 1984, at the age of 59, from liver cancer. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Photographed by Mel Finkelstein for New York World Telegram & Sun, 1966.