Did you know that Truman Capote Summered next door to the small town Alabama home of (Nell) Harper Lee?
Did you know that Harper Lee served as Capote's research assistant while he was writing In Cold Blood?
Did you know that there has always been an unsubstantiated rumor and suspicion that Capote wrote or rewrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
All these questions gain fresh life with the publication last week of Lee's second book (actually Mockingbird first draft) Go Set A Watchman wherein she depicts Atticus 20 years after the first book's trial as a racist segregationist.
I don't know the answers to the above questions, but what I do know, from the point of view of a lawyer: what a great lawyer racist Atticus had to be to defend a "negro" so zealously despite his prejudice and personal point of view. If nothing else, Watchman elevates and humanizes an otherwise too good to be true Gregory Peck type.
Rumor has it that there is a third manuscript in the Harper Lee safe deposit box. What more could she have imagined that is not happening today?
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