Is In Cold Blood a creative work? Is it more than journalism? Why or why not?

claimed
that he had created a newwith . He called it a nonfiction novel. To make
his book more dramatic, he employed imaginative description and imaginary dialogue. He also used
his creative imagination to describe the emotions of many of the characters involved, including
members of the Clutter family, their friends and neighbors, the police, and the two killers. All
these descriptive elements, which are common to traditional novels, were based on Capote's
observations and interviews, as well as on whatever news reports he had read, but they were
interpreted and colored by his creative imagination. His novel might be compared with Theodore
Dreiser's much earlier novel, An American , which was also based on an
actual murder. Dreiser, however, took much greater liberties with the actual characters and
events. Capote is one of the leading exponents of the so-called New Journalism, which is a kind
of reportage in which the author inserts his own opinions, impressions, interpretations,
personality into his accounts of actual events. New Journalism is like Impressionism compared
toin painting. New Journalism is more subjective than traditional
journalism, which aims at being factual, truthful, unbiased.