The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 20 to 11
One of the first major 20th-century cultural figures to live in Brooklyn “by choice,” Capote moved into a house on Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights in 1955—a move and neighborhood he famously chronicled in an essay called “A House on the Heights,” which every Brooklynite ought to consider required reading alongside non-Brooklyn-related must-reads like In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.