The writer Harper Lee, famous for her one and only book To Kill A Mockingbird, is featured in a film out this week. In the film Capote, Lee helps the celebrated and flamboyant American novelist Truman Capote as he researches his most famous work, In cold Blood – about the murder of a Kansas farming family.
Capote hired his childhood friend Lee to be his researcher and guardian. Lee herself has always been a private figure, who has refused to give interviews for four decades, since the publishing of her book at the height of the civil rights movement.
Jenni looks at this hero of American literature. |
