Truman Capote Called His Account Of The 1959 Murder Of A Kansas Farm Family A Nonfiction Novel. Using Information He Collected Through Townspeople And The Killers, Capote Created A Vivid Portrait Of The Criminals And Graphically Described The Crime, The Criminals’ Escape To Mexico, Capture, Trial, Appeals, And Hanging. Benet’s Reader’s Ency Of Am Lit. Truman Capote. Originally Published: 1965.