Name: The Defining Shared Years of Truman Capote and Harper Lee • Paul Dewey
Start: 2025-10-01T11:30:00-05:00
Location: 101 S Debardeleben St, Auburn, AL, United States, Alabama 36830

$The Defining Shared Years of Truman Capote and Harper Lee \u2022 Paul Dewey$

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Truman Capote and Harper Lee had unique shared experiences in the years 1959-1967. They included not only working together doing research on a story that would evolve into In Cold Blood, but also sharing together the fulfillment of childhood fantasies of being writers, writing defining works of American literature (To K*ll A Mockingbird and In Cold Blood), and expressing mutual respect about and support for each other. There have been substantial reviews about how Capote in later years self-destructed and how Capote and Harper Lee became estranged, but there was far more to their life-time relationship than that. In contrast to the later years, Capote and Harper Lee from 1959 to 1967 were close friends. It was also a notable time as they would never again work and be so much together. Paul Dewey is writing a memoir, Truman, Nelle and In Cold Blood, that explores the relationships of Capote, Harper Lee and the Dewey family from 1959 to 1967.