I Am Scout (28 page)

25
. Capote papers, New York Public Library, box 7, folder 8.

26
. Ibid., folders 11–14; 11 January 1960.

27
. Capote papers, Library of Congress, box 4, Ac 14, 421; 11 January 1960.

28
. Capote papers, New York Public Library, box 7, folders 11–14; 11 January 1960.

29
. Ibid.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Ibid.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Ibid.

34
. Newquist,
Counterpoint,
407.

35
. Truman Capote, letter to Cecil Beaton, 21 January 1960. In Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
276–77.

36
. Elon Torrence, interview with author, 6 May 2005. Mr. Torrence is a former Associated Press reporter who attended the trial.

37
. Capote papers, New York Public Library, box 7, folders 11–14, 22 March 1960.

38
. Ibid., 19 March 1960.

39
. Elon Torrence, interview with author, 6 May 2005.

40
. “America's Worst Crime in Twenty Years,” Richard Eugene Hickock, as told to Mack Nations,
Male,
December 1961, 30–31, 76–83.

41
. Capote papers, New York Public Library, box 7, folders 11–14, (no date).

42
. Mark Besten, “Too Hot for You? Take a Dip in Cold Blood,”
Louisville Eccentric Observer,
1 August 2001, 16.

Chapter 7:
Mockingbird
Takes Off

1
. Capote, letter to David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones, early June 1960, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
284.

2
. Newquist,
Counterpoint,
407.

3
. Untitled item,
Monroe Journal,
16 June 1960.

4
. Glendy Culligan, “Listen to That Mockingbird,”
Washington Post,
3 July 1960, E6.

5
. Frank H. Lyell, “Violence in Dixie” (review)
Seed in the Wind,
by Leon Odell,
New York Times,
31 July 1960, BR23.

6
. Capote, letter to Alvin and Marie Dewey, 10 October 1960, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
299.

7
. “Mocking Bird Call,”
Newsweek,
9 January 1961, 83.

8
. Tay Hohoff,
Cats and Other People
(New York: Popular Library, 1973), 195.

9
. Max York, “Throngs Greet Monroe Writer,”
Montgomery Advertiser,
13 September 1960.

10
. Vernon Hendrix, “Author's Father Proud of ‘Mockingbird' Fame,”
Montgomery Advertiser,
7 August 1960.

11
. Capote, letter to Andrew Lyndon, 6 September 1960, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
291.

12
. Albin Krebs, “Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity,”
New York Times,
28 August 1984.

13
. “Mocking Bird Call,” 83.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Unsigned letter to Harper Lee from a secretary in Williams's office, 7 January 1961, Annie Laurie Williams papers, Columbia University, box 86.

17
. Charles Ray Skinner, interview with author, 22 December 2002.

18
. Nelle Harper Lee to Leo R. Roberts, 26 January 1960, Archives and Information Center, Huntingdon College Library, Huntingdon Collection.

19
. Frances Kiernan, “No Apologies Necessary,”
The Atlantic Monthly,
April 2001.

20
. Hendrix, “Author's Father Proud.”

21
. Emma Foy, interview with author, 5 July 2003.

22
. Annie Laurie Williams to Nelle and Alice Lee, 28 January 1961, Williams papers, box 86.

23
. “Mockingbird Film May Begin in Fall,”
Birmingham News,
2 May 1961.

24
. “Spreading Poison” (letter to the editor),
Atlanta Journal,
7 February 1961.

25
. Annie Laurie Williams to George Stevens with note attached from Harper Lee, 8 August 1960, Williams papers, box 86.

26
. Maurice Crain to Alice Lee, 22 March 1961, Williams papers, box 86.

27
. Murray Schumach, “Prize for Novel Elates Film Pair,”
New York Times,
19 May 1961, 26.

28
. “State Pulitzer Prize Winner Too Busy to Write,”
Dothan Eagle,
2 May 1961.

29
. “‘Luckiest Person in the World.'”

30
. “Mocking Bird Call,” 83.

31
. Truman Capote, letter to Alvin and Marie Dewey,
22
May 1961, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
317.

32
. Nelle Lee to Helen McGowin, 20 November 1961, Caldwell Delaney papers, University of South Alabama Archives.

33
. Note to Harper Lee, 12 July
1961,
Williams papers, box 86.

34
. “‘Luckiest Person in the World.'”

Chapter 8: “Oh, Mr. Peck!”

1
. Reed Polk, letter to author, 10 July 2003.

2
. Scott McGee, Kerryn Sherrod, and Jeff Stafford, “To Kill a Mockingbird: The Essentials,” Turner Classic Movies,
www.turnerclassicmovies.com
.

3
. Joseph Deitch, “Harper Lee: Novelist of the South,”
Christian Science Monitor,
3 October 1961, 6.

4
. Charles S. Watson,
Horton Foote: A Literary Biography
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003), 114. Nelle didn't quite feel “indifference,” as she claimed. In a letter to Helen McGowin, a friend in Mobile, dated November 20, 1961, Nelle wrote: “Please forgive the long silence from Monroeville. I had to do some things that HAD to be done as soon as I returned—the most pressing task was doctoring the movie script” (Caldwell Delaney papers, University of South Alabama).

5
. Don Noble,
Bookmark: Interview with Horton Foote,
videocassette, Alabama Center for Public Television, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 27 August 1998.

6
.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now,
videocassette, Prince William County Public Schools, Manassas, Va., 25 April 1997.

7
. M. Jerry Weiss, “To Kill a Mockingbird,”
Photoplay Guide,
NCTE Studies in the Mass Media (Champaign, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, March 1963), 18.

8
.
To Kill a Mockingbird,
Commentary section, Universal City, Calif.: Universal Home Video, 1998, compact disc.

9
. Williams to George Stevens, 23 May 1961, Annie Laurie Williams papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, box 86.

10
. Gary Fishgall,
Gregory Peck: A Biography
(New York: Scribner, 2002), 233.

11
. George Thomas Jones, “Stand Up, Monroeville, Gregory Peck Is Passin'.”
Happenings in Old Monroeville,
vol. 2 (Monroeville, Ala.: Bolton Newspapers, 2003), 159–60.

12
. Ibid., 160–61.

13
. Dolores Hope, letter to author, 15 October 2002.

14
. Thomas McDonald, “Bird in Hand,”
New York Times,
6 May 1962, 149.

15
. Kansas, “To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee: Why the Site?”

16
. “Brock Peters, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird' Actor, Dies at 78,”
USA Today,
23 August 2005.

17
.
To Kill a Mockingbird,
Commentary section, compact disc.

18
. Barbara Vancheri, “Author Lauded ‘Mockingbird' as a ‘Moving' Film,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
20 February 2003.

19
. Philip Alford, interview with author, 21 May 2004.

20
. Murray Schumach, “Film Crew Saves $75,000 on Shacks,”
New York Times,
19 January 1962, 26.

21
. Newquist,
Counterpoint,
406.

22
. Kansas, “To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee: Why the Site?”

23
. Alford, interview with author, 21 May 2004.

24
. Ibid.

25
. Vernon Hendrix, “Firm Gives Books to Monroe County,”
Montgomery Advertiser,
23 December 1962.

26
. A. C. Lee, “This Is My Father's World,” Bounds Law Library, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

27
. A. B. Blass, “Mockingbird Tales,”
Legacy
(magazine of the Monroe County Heritage Museums), Fall/Winter 1999, 22.

28
. Ramona Allison, “‘Mockingbird' Author Is Alabama's ‘Woman of the Year,'”
Birmingham Post Herald,
3 January 1962.

29
. Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird,
30.

30
. Reverend Thomas L. Butts, Remarks at “Maud McLure Kelly Award Luncheon,” (award given to Miss Alice Lee, Mobile, Ala., 18 July 2003).

31
. E.L.H., Jr., “The Obvious Is All Around Us” (editorial),
Birmingham News,
22 April 1962.

32
. Truman Capote, letter to Alvin and Marie Dewey, 5 May 1962, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
348.

33
. Fishgall,
Gregory Peck,
236.

34
. Ibid.

35
.
To Kill a Mockingbird,
Commentary section, compact disc.

36
. Truman Capote, letter to Alvin and Marie Dewey, 16 August 1962, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
361.

37
. Truman Capote, letter to Donald Cullivan, 11 December 1962, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
372.

38
. “Author Praises Picture Made from Prize Novel,”
New York Times,
Williams papers (a clipping in Harper Lee's file).

39
.
To Kill a Mockingbird,
Commentary section, compact disc.

40
.
Newsweek,
18 February 1963, 93.

41
. Bosley Crowther, “Screen: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.'”
New York Times,
15 February 1963, 10.

42
. Colin Nicholson, “Hollywood and Race:
To Kill a Mockingbird,
” in
Cinema and Fiction: New Modes of Adapting, 1950–1990,
eds. John Orr and Colin Nicholson (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), 97.

43
. M. Jerry Weiss, “To Kill a Mockingbird,”
Photoplay Guide,
18.

44
. Dorothy and Taylor Faircloth, interview with author, 17 March 2003.

45
. Joseph Blass, letter to author, 10 September 2002.

46
. Dorothy and Taylor Faircloth, interview with author, 17 March 2003.

47
. S. Jonathan Bass,
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001), 102–103.

48
. Vernon Hendrix, “Harper Lee Cries for Joy at Peck's Winning of Oscar,”
Montgomery Advertiser,
10 April 1963.

49
. Moates,
A Bridge of Childhood,
11.

Chapter 9: The Second Novel

1
. Amelia Young, “Her Writing Place Is Secret: ‘Mockingbird' Author Working on Second Book,”
Minneapolis Star
(?), 26 May 1963, Williams papers, box 86. (The clipping is barely identifiable.)

2
. Wes Lawrence, “Author's Problem: Friends,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
17 March 1964.

3
. James B. Simpson,
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988).

4
. Hal Boyle, “Harper Lee Running Scared, Getting Fat on Heels of Success,”
Birmingham News,
15 March 1963.

5
. Joseph Deitch, “Harper Lee: Novelist of the South,”
Christian Science Monitor,
3 October 1961, 6.

6
. Alice Lee to Annie Laurie Williams, 14 November 1963, Williams papers, box 86.

7
. Young, “Her Writing Place Is Secret.”

8
. Ibid.

9
. Truman Capote, letter to Bennett Cerf, 10 September 1962, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
363.

10
. Harold Nye to Capote, 27 June 1962, Capote papers, New York Public Library, box 7, folder 9.

11
. Harold Nye, interview with author, 30 December 2002.

12
. Newquist,
Counterpoint,
407–12.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Truman Capote, letter to Perry Smith, 24 January 1965, in Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat,
412.

15
. Brig. Gen. Jack Capp (Ret.), letter to author, 1 July 2006.

16
. Ibid.

17
. Gus Lee,
Honor and Duty
(reprint, New York: Ivy Books, 1994), 149–50.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Clarke,
Capote: A Biography,
354.

20
. Don Lee Keith, “An Afternoon with Harper Lee,”
Delta Review
(Spring 1966).

21
. Williams to Alice Lee, 5 August 1965, Williams papers, box 86.

22
. Lee, “When Children Discover America,” 76–79.

23
. Wayne Lee, “Emotions Mixed Among Clutter Participants,”
Hutchinson News,
31 October 1965.

24
. Williams to Alice Lee, 28 September 1965, Williams papers, box 86.

25
. Sarah Countryman, interview with author, 9 March 2004.

26
. Williams to Alice Lee, 8 October 1965, Williams papers, box 86.