Monroeville, Alabama
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Monroeville is the county seat of Monroe County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census its population was 5,951.
Historic buildings in Downtown Monroeville
Old Monroe County Courthouse, the model for the courthouse used in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird
Truman Capote
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Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the fo
Monroeville, Alabama
…Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, explored the fictional town of Maycomb, inspired by her hometown. Her other novel, Go Set a Watchman, is also set in Maycomb. Truman Capote, best known for his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and his non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, spent part of his childhood in Monroeville. Lee and Capote…
Capote in 1980 by Jack Mitchell
Halma's photograph of Capote on the back cover of Other Voices, Other Rooms
Capote photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948
Truman Capote in 1959