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- A portrait of Truman Capote, born Truman Streckfus Persons, (1924 - 1984), American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose early writing extended the Southern Gothic tradition, though he later developed a more journalistic approach in the novel "In Cold Blood" (1965; film 1967), which, together with "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1958; film 1961), remains his best-known work.
- About the informal association of German-speaking writers that was founded in 1947. Gruppe 47 originated with a group of war prisoners in the United States who were concerned with reestablishing the broken traditions of German literature. Feeling that Nazi propaganda had corrupted their language, they advocated a style of sparse, even cold, descriptive realism devoid of pompous or poetic verbiage.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor. At age 15 he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and was repeatedly jailed for subversive activity. He started to write poetry during solitary confinement in 1909. On his release he attended the Moscow Art School and joined, with David Burlyuk and a few others, the Russian Futurist group and soon became its leading spokesman. In 1912 the group published a manifesto, Poshchochina obshchestvennomu vkusu ("A Slap in the Face of Public Taste"), and Mayakovsky's poetry became conspicuously self-assertive and defiant in form and content.
- Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) was a German National Socialist who was Adolf Hitler's deputy as party leader. He created an international sensation when in 1941 he secretly flew to Great Britain on an abortive self-styled mission to negotiate a peace between Britain and Germany. Hess joined the fledgling Nazi Party in 1920 and quickly became Hitler's friend and confidant. After WWII, he was tried at the Nürnberg war crimes trials, convicted, and given a life sentence. He served his sentence at Spandau prison in Berlin, where from 1966 he was the sole inmate.
- 1992TV EpisodeFor its fifth production Moscow Art Theatre staged Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", a play that had failed in its first production. With its revival of "The Seagull," the theatre not only achieved its first major success but also began a long artistic association with one of Russia's most celebrated playwrights: in Chekhov's artistic realism, the Art Theatre discovered a writer suited to its aesthetic sensibilities.