But Nina never stayed away from Monroeville for long. Perhaps if she had gone away and stayed away, young Truman would have suffered less. When she was pregnant, Lillie Mae - Nina, as she introduced herself in New York - had tried to abort him. Only there could she become the rich and adored society woman she knew she was destined to be, and probably would have been, if it weren't for Truman, the son she never wanted to begin with. Now was Lillie Mae's chance to quit that jerkwater town and hightail it to a big city. He was able to fit in anywhere.Īfter his parents' divorce, five-year-old Truman was sent to his aunt's house in Monroeville, Alabama. Gradually the handoffs began to hurt Truman less - either that, or he grew more accustomed to the pain - and in time, his knack for adaptation turned into something like genius. By the late 1920s, his mother, Lillie Mae, had made a habit of abandoning her son with relatives for months at a time while she went round and round from man to high-falutin' man. Traveling was forced upon little Truman Capote from the beginning. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
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