“They made for a perfect pair of misfits,” writes G. Neri of the two title characters in Tru & Nelle, his new children's novel, “he too refined to play with the boys; she too much of a tomboy to get ...

July 14 (Reuters) - I was born in Monroeville, Alabama, three years before Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird. Although we moved away when I was a small child, my family returned often to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Truman Garcia Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. His parents ...

A Monroeville World War II veteran who knew famous novelists Nelle Harper Lee and Truman Capote as children has died. George T. Jones, 102, died on Thursday morning, Feb. 27, at Monroeville County ...

Judy Muller speaks with Charles Shields about his new biography of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Shields interviewed hundreds of Lee's acquaintances and researched the papers of her ...

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Better than OK, as it turned out: Nelle and Tru, 6- and 7-year-old neighbors in small-town Alabama in the 1930s, are Harper Lee and Truman Capote, who each became titanic literary figures. Their deep ...