Tag Archive for ‘In Cold Blood’
Happy Birthday, Harper Lee
Born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama –Nelle Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. If you only publish one book, may as well make it a good one. For Harper Lee it was To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), the story of Scout Finch, a girl growing up in a small Southern town. Scout [...]
Don’t Know Much About Truman Capote
“Oh my, it’s fruitcake weather!” It’s not the first line many people associate with Truman Capote, born September 30, 1924 in New Orleans. But it is in one of my favorites, A Christmas Memory, a 1956 short story originally published in Mademoiselle. This Depression-era story of a young boy and his favorite aunt making holiday [...]
