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Oprah and Harper Lee

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Reclusive To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee has an essay about her love of reading in the current issue of Oprah's magazine--her first published work in decades. Check out the new biography Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee or the movie Capote in which Harper Lee figures prominently. Many believe she helped more than a little in the writing of In Cold Blood--her friend Truman's book about the Clutter murders--she's not saying.

Posted by Mary on July 17, 2006 01:26 PM |

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I hadn't heard the rumor about her helping write In Cold Blood, but there have been rumors for many years that Capote had a hand in writing To Kill a Mockingbird, if only because that was her one and only published book.

Personally I think that a lot of authors write "one too many" books, and should have quit while they were ahead. Maybe she realized that she could never top TKaM. But I don't have any doubts that she wrote it herself--I just don't "hear" anything of Capote in it.

Posted by: Sharon | July 21, 2006 11:20 AM

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