American literature of the second half of 20 century

Documentary novel: Truman Capote

• Truman Capote, best known for his works Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, reached a pinnacle that many writer's dream of but few ever ascend. And no one climbed to that summit like Capote. Truman pioneered a new literary genre, the Nonfiction Novel, with what many claim as his ultimate work, In Cold Blood, the story of a rural Kansas murder recounting journalistic facts with the flair of prose.

Drama in 20 century

Eugene O’Neill(1888-1953)

 

• Category:  American Literature  
• Born:  October 16, 1888 New York City, New York, United States  
• Died:  November 27, 1953 Boston, Massachusetts

Unquestionably America’s greatest playwright. He Won the Pulitzer Prize four times

The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize.

He is widely acclaimed “founder of the American drama” .

Main Works:

• One-act melodramatic: Bound East for Cardiff
• Play: Beyond the Horizon (won first P Prize)
• The Straw
• Anna Christie
• The Emperor Jones
• The Hairy Ape
• All God’s Chillun Got Wings
• Desire Under the Elms
• The Great God Brown
• Lazarus Laughed
• Stranger Interlude (second prize)
• The Iceman Cometh
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night