![]() ![]() ![]() “He nursed his envy for more than 20 years.” “I was his oldest friend, and I did something Truman could not forgive: I wrote a novel that sold,” she wrote. Capote’s drinking and misery soured their friendship. “I don’t know if you understood this about him,” she wrote, “but his compulsive lying was like this: if you said, ‘Did you know JFK was shot?’ He’d easily answer, ‘Yes, I was driving the car he was riding in.’” Of her famous friendship with Truman Capote, she wrote in a letter to Flynt: ![]() Writing at the New York Times, Jennifer Crossley Howard spoke to Flynt about the book and his relationship with Lee. (“I only sign for children,” she told him.) Their relationship would improve over the next twenty-five years, though, and on May 2, Flynt will publish Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship With Harper Lee. Historian and author Wayne Flynt first met Harper Lee in 1983, when she bluntly refused to sign his copy of To Kill A Mockingbird. In Mockingbird Songs, Harper Lee’s friend expresses his belief that she was happy to see Go Set A Watchman published. ![]()
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