Here’s a roundup of some of The Wall Street Journal’s critics on work by—or inspired by—the American writer, who was born on Sept. 30, 1924. If Norman Mailer was, or at least sought to be, the postwar ...

Truman Capote’s death in 1984 didn’t come as a shock, even at the age of 59. The acclaimed author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood spent the decade preceding his demise publicly sliding ...