What would you classify it as?

[jaynebosco]

I bought In Cold Blood by Truman Capote today (found it at a bookstore I like to shop at) and was wondering how this book would be classified as. I have seen it as being classified as being True Crime. Is this correct?

 

[novella]

Yes, it's True Crime. Capote interviewed the murderers for the book. It really happened.

 

[angerball]

Yeah, true crime, but I've seen it classified as Fiction before. I think it's a "fictionalised" account of a true event. Correct me if I'm wrong, someone.

 

[beer good]

Capote himself called it a "non-fiction novel". By all accounts I've seen and read, it's pretty much factually true - he spent years talking to the murderers, and even interfered to some extent in their trial. Still, it's a novel. Don't ask me to explain how that works. Just read it, it's pretty darn good.

 

[angerball]

Don't ask me to explain how that works.

I assume that he "fictionalised" the events that the murderers couldn't have known, or that he couldn't facts about, like maybe what the murdered family did that day, etc. I'm not sure.