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    A Study Guide for Truman Capote's "Miriam"
    A Study Guide for Truman Capote's "Miriam"
    A Study Guide for Truman Capote's "Miriam"
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    A Study Guide for Truman Capote's "Miriam"

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    A Study Guide for Truman Capote's "Miriam", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 13, 2018
    ISBN9781535868099
    A Study Guide for Truman Capote's "Miriam"

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      Miriam

      Truman Capote

      1945

      Introduction

      Truman Capote's long, illustrious career as a writer started with a bang in 1945 when his story Miriam was published in the prestigious magazine Mademoiselle. It was Capote's first story published in a national magazine; it won him the O. Henry Award and instantly established him as one of the best-known writers of his time. He was only nineteen.

      Miriam tells the story of an odd little girl who keeps appearing in the life of a lonely widow living in New York City. The woman (whose name is also Miriam, a fact the story mentions only glancingly) does not know if the girl is in trouble and needs help or is a wily manipulator or if she is even real. Capote imbues this story with a creepy sense of mystery, drawing on the Southern Gothic tradition he grew up with in New Orleans and Mississippi and telling it with the plain, straightforward tone he honed as a writer and journalist. Miriam was reprinted in the short-story collection A Tree of Night and Other Stories in 1949. In 1981, it appeared as a stand-alone volume under the

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