I agree with you on Capote. My first exposure was “In Cold Blood”. Rereading some of the paragraphs I could see what artistry went into the sentence structure and words carefully chosen to create a scene, emotion or action. The man painted a paragraph like a great artist using an easel.
I spent 5 years in Garden City, Kansas and lived within easy walking distance of the grave yard in which the Clutter family was buried.
I used to hunt and shoot on land belonging to KBI and later FBI agent who solved the murders. Just remembered his name, Alvin Dewey. From that land one could see the old Clutter home across the Arkansas River which was usually dry.