Capote and Lee

[Jess5]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

They were child-hood friends, and rumours floated around for years that Harper Lee didn't write To Kill a Mockingbird, and that Capote didn't write In Cold Blood, alone.

Undoubtedly their close friendship influenced each other's writing but I think they held their own.

Hi ontheroad, I've always heard and read, the opposite. That Harper Lee wrote most of In Cold Blood. It's a well known fact that she did most of the research for it.

[cpg35223]

I moved to Alabama and all I can say that there must be something in the water here. Incredible writers just seem to spring up from the soil in both Alabama (And Mississippi, too). Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Walker Percy, Rick Bragg, Fannie Flagg, Gail Godwin, Winston Grooms, Barry Hannah, Robert Inman, Diane McWhorter, Howell Raines, Gay Talese, Edward O. Wilson, Cynthia Tucker....the list goes on and on.