Thursday, April 28, 2016

Harper Lee's article for FBI magazine on infamous killings found

Biographer of To Kill a Mockingbird author finds unsigned piece on quadruple murder at centre of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood

Clipping from the Garden City Telegram, in which Harper Lee’s friend Dolores Hope alerted readers to a forthcoming article by the To Kill a Mockingbird author
Clipping from the Garden City Telegram, in which Harper Lee’s friend alerted readers to the novelist’s forthcoming article. Photograph: The Garden City Telegram
The discovery of an earlier manuscript from the US novelist Harper Lee was the publishing sensation of last year but now her biographer, Charles J Shields, believes he has found another previously unknown Lee text – a feature article about a notorious real-life quadruple murder.
The piece was written for the March 1960 issue of the Grapevine, a magazine for FBI professionals, just months before she was to publish her classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. It was unsigned, but Shields’s detective work uncovered evidence which appears to confirm its true authorship.
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