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Reply #14: Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," collaborated with Capote on "In Cold Blood" . . . [View All]

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Journeyman

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Sun Apr-27-08 10:28 PM
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14. Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," collaborated with Capote on "In Cold Blood" . . .

Childhood friends, Harper and Truman had a lifelong, ofttimes strained relationship. Without Lee's assistance, Capote might not have written his first masterpiece, as Harper was instrumental in getting normally reticent Kansans to open up to an admittedly "different" outsider.

The story of their collaboration is a fascinating tale of how a brilliant account of a very disturbing crime was researched and came to be written. The tale is told in Charle's Shield's recent New York Times bestselling biography, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee.

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