[Perdogg]

why?

[ClearCase_guy]

She has written one book.
She almost never gives interviews or talks to anyone in the press. She's sort of ben hiding for 50 years. Hiding from what?
Her only other major accomplishment is helping Capote with research for "In Cold Blood".
She and Capote were lifelong friends.

I think it is bizarre that her one and only attempt at writing just happened to sell 30 million copies. For me, this is just amusing speculation, kind of like wondering if the works of Shakespeare were written by Shakespeare or by someone else.

[billorites]

Truman Capote and Harper Lee were very close.

That she never capitalized on the book's success with another novel has long fueled speculation that it was not her production.

Capote, as good a friend as he was of Lee, would have been incapable of not taking credit had he, in fact, been the author. He drank enough so that he would have let the truth slip sooner or later, somewhere or other.

I take her at her word that the success floored her. That would be an awful thing to feel one had to equal or repeat.