Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) debt to Christopher Isherwood, one of his mentors, in creating the character of Holly Golightly: ""Breakfast at Tiffany's" is in many ways Capote's personal crystallization of Isherwood's Sally Bowles." Truman Capote's aunt, Marie Rudisill notes that Holly is a kindred spirit of Miss Lily Jane Bobbit, the central character of his short story "Children on Their Birthdays". She observes that both characters are "unattached, unconventional wanderers, dreamers in pursuit of some ideal of happiness." Capote himself acknowledged that Golightly was the favorite of his characters. The novella's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of
Jeff Truman "The Doctor Blake Mysteries". He also wrote for "" (nominated for an AWGIE award in 2012), "", and "". In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for "Underbelly: Badness". Truman wrote the feature film "Envy" which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1999. He also had a small role in Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns". Truman died on 2 December 2014, after suffering a brain haemorrhage, he was 57. Jeff Truman Jeffrey Maxwell Truman (4 November 1957 – 2 December 2014) was an Australian film and television screenwriter