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American Fiction, Book Review, Classic, Fiction, Novel

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote vs. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a non-fiction novel based on the murder of the Clutter family, husband and wife, son and daughter, all four killed in their own home by Perry Smith and his accomplice Dick Hickock in 1959. Mr. Capote’s accomplishment is not that he tells a compelling story of murder and the subsequent search for justice which he does, but that … Continue reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote vs. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

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American Fiction, Book Review, Classic, Fiction, LGBT, Novel, Young Adult

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I had some problems with To Kill a Mockingbird. One of my summer reading projects has been reading Harper Lee’s novel in tandem with Truman Capote’s first novel Other Voices, Other Rooms. (See earlier posts here and here.) The two authors, who knew each other as children and remained close friends well into adulthood, each based a character on the other in their first novels. The character … Continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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American Fiction, Book Review, Classic, Fiction, LGBT

Harper Lee vs. Truman Capote

Earlier this year when I read a review of Truman Capote’s first novel, Other Voices Other Rooms which is about growing up in a small rural Southern town, I thought wouldn’t it be interesting to read  in tandem with Harper Lee’s novel about growing up in a small rural Southern town To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee and Truman Capote had what is probably the … Continue reading Harper Lee vs. Truman Capote

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