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
Timothy Truman Terry Strongheart, they decided to form a new band with some of Truman's friends and Strongheart's daughter called the Terry Strongheart Band. Two CDs have been recorded, the first entitled "Tears" and the follow-up "Indian School". Truman provided illustrations for the posthumous Rory Gallagher release "Kickback City" (2013). Truman said he first heard Gallagher's music in 1973 while a junior in high school. Timothy Truman is often confused with the music composer Tim Truman who wrote the theme to "Melrose Place" and composed the score to "Miami Vice's" final season among other important contributions to the music industry in movies