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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:26 PM Jan 2015

What's your favorite Harper Lee novel?

Mine's To Kill A Mockingbird.

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What's your favorite Harper Lee novel? (Original Post) KamaAina Jan 2015 OP

Me too shenmue Jan 2015 #1

I believe jehop61 Jan 2015 #2

I believe you are correct KamaAina Jan 2015 #4

In Cold Blood edhopper Jan 2015 #3

She went to Kansas and helped Truman Capote research 'In Cold Blood.' Are_grits_groceries Jan 2015 #5

Researching jehop61 Jan 2015 #7

I wasn't suggesting that it was a book of hers. Are_grits_groceries Jan 2015 #8

For the writing, story and themes, "To Kill a Mockingbird". . . Journeyman Jan 2015 #6

My cat is named Atticus. Hoyt Jan 2015 #9

As is a wonderful bookstore in New Haven. KamaAina Jan 2015 #11

To Kill A Mockingbird KMOD Jan 2015 #10

Not too many choices. . . . BigDemVoter Jan 2015 #12

That I had not heard KamaAina Jan 2015 #13

It's probably just some ugly gossip with no proof. . . . BigDemVoter Jan 2015 #14

The best assault weapons for killing mockingbirds... lame54 Jan 2015 #15

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. Me too

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:27 PM

Jan 2015

jehop61

(1,735 posts)

2. I believe

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:32 PM

Jan 2015

that's her only published novel

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

4. I believe you are correct

Reply to jehop61 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:34 PM

Jan 2015

the point is that it contains DU's word du jour, "mocking" in the title.

edhopper

(33,584 posts)

3. In Cold Blood

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:33 PM

Jan 2015

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)

5. She went to Kansas and helped Truman Capote research 'In Cold Blood.'

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:35 PM

Jan 2015

They had been friends since childhood.
Personally, I have always believed that experience affected both of them deeply and not for the better. She might have been a recluse anyway but going through that would make me leery of people.

jehop61

(1,735 posts)

7. Researching

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:37 PM

Jan 2015

isn't the same as publishing. But a good piece of trivia

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)

8. I wasn't suggesting that it was a book of hers.

Reply to jehop61 (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:41 PM

Jan 2015

BTW the character Dill in "To Kill A Mockingbird" was based on Truman Capote.

Journeyman

(15,036 posts)

6. For the writing, story and themes, "To Kill a Mockingbird". . .

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:36 PM

Jan 2015

for the research and related contributions to its gritty reality, the non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

9. My cat is named Atticus.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:42 PM

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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

11. As is a wonderful bookstore in New Haven.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #9)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:44 PM

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KMOD

(7,906 posts)

10. To Kill A Mockingbird

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:43 PM

Jan 2015

is my favorite too!

Big K&R for Harper Lee.

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)

12. Not too many choices. . . .

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 05:51 PM

Jan 2015

And the one we DO have may or may not have been written by Miss Lee. . . . There has been a lot of talk over the years that Truman Capote wrote it & she took credit which critics say may be the reason only ONE novel ever came out.

I wonder what the truth actually is?

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

13. That I had not heard

Reply to BigDemVoter (Reply #12)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 05:52 PM

Jan 2015

edit: Sounds like an urban legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird#Rumors_of_authorship_by_Truman_Capote

Lee's childhood friend, author Truman Capote, wrote on the dust jacket of the first edition, "Someone rare has written this very fine first novel: a writer with the liveliest sense of life, and the warmest, most authentic sense of humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable." This comment has been construed to suggest that Capote wrote the book or edited it heavily. In 2003, a Tuscaloosa newspaper quoted Capote's biological father, Archulus Persons, as claiming that Capote had written "almost all" of the book. In 2006, a Capote letter was donated to Monroeville's literary heritage museum; in a letter to a neighbor in Monroeville in 1959, Capote mentioned that Lee was writing a book that was to be published soon. Extensive notes between Lee and her editor at Lippincott also refute the rumor of Capote's authorship. Lee's older sister, Alice, has responded to the rumor, saying: "That's the biggest lie ever told."

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)

14. It's probably just some ugly gossip with no proof. . . .

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #13)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 05:54 PM

Jan 2015

I read it somewhere or another many years ago. . . .

lame54

(35,293 posts)

15. The best assault weapons for killing mockingbirds...

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 05:54 PM

Jan 2015

A little known manual she wrote
it had a very limited print run

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