Truman Capote vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Truman Capote
1924 – 1984
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe.
"A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896 – 1940
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer associated with the Jazz Age, best known for his novel The Great Gatsby, which critiques the American Dream. His work captured the excesses and disillusionment of 1920s America.
"Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few y…"