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Wonder what Truman Capote would say...since he wrote the book. :)

Harper Lee wrote the book. Ironically, she was indeed the personal secretary for Truman Capote.

If you've spent any time in rural Alabama -- Monroeville, Union Springs, Fitzgerald, Hayneville -- you'll recognize the settings. And the author's affinity for them.

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Harper Lee wrote the book. Ironically, she was indeed the personal secretary for Truman Capote.

They were cousins -- or relatives of some sort.

There's a theory that he actually wrote Mockingbird and she wrote In Cold Blood.

She helped him with the research and probably they read each other's books through before publication.