What books are you into?

[JHyde]

You fiend! As someone well schooled in both, I'm confident that Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. It reads nothing like anything Capote ever wrote, not to mention that he was in the middle of writing the work that was to become his magnum opus when it was published. Lee was in the finishing stages of TKAM by the time she was sent to Kansas with Capote by the Times (most of the manuscript had already been seen by her publishers, little was changed), and prior to that they hadn't seen each other in about 20 years. So the timelines don't add up.

Can this ridiculous myth finally be put to bed once and for all?!

Speaking of Capote, I often enjoy his short stories more than his novels. You can actually buy them in a compendium now together. I guess they finally bought the rights from Harper's Bazaar who held them for 60 or more years. Other Voices Other Rooms is still my favourite of his novels and I think I've written elsewhere on this thread about how fabulous the Gerald Clarke biography of him is. Especially given he was still able to talk to many of the players themselves, including Capote, while they were still alive.