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Mockingbird - also known as the Northern Mockingbird, the wren, and the thrasher.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. There was a difference of just two years in age between Capote and Harper Lee. Capote was born in 1924, and Lee in 1926. Both grew up to be writers, both wrote about the South, and both worked together as adults on research for In Cold Blood which was written by Capote. The little boy Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird is Capote. Capote's The Grass Harp and "A Christmas Memory" take place in settings similar to To Kill a Mockingbird - the Monroeville, Alabama town and countryside.
Truman Capote and Marilyn Monroe
Truman Capote
Capote's In Cold Blood was a documentary about a multiple murder that took many years to write and which reads like a thriller.
