"Literary Birthday, Truman Capote -- b. September 30, 1924"

Picture Credit:  telegraph.co.uk

Truman Capote ... born September 30, 1924 in New Orleans.  “Of course no writers ever forget their first acceptance … one fine day when I was seventeen I had my first, second, and third, all in the same morning’s mail.  Oh, I’m here to tell you, dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.”

Credit:  "A Book of Days for the Literary Year"