The groundbreaking true crime novel continues to shape the genre decades later.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Cordal Lewis was running away when Kazius Childress fired 11 times — killing him in “cold blood,” a prosecutor said Wednesday during her opening statement in a murder trial. Assistant ...

But Capote was adamant that his own blend of “immaculately factual” reportage and fictional techniques represented the discovery of a new form, and this insistence tallied with Capote’s “quest to be ...