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
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
Harper Lee
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Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Ca
Truman Capote
…journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. Capote spent six years writing the latter, aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Truman Capote was born at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Lillie Mae Faulk (1905–1954) and…
Portrait by Truman Capote, 1960
The first edition cover for To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, November 5, 2007