Harper Lee and Truman Capote's friendship fictionalised in YA novel

The story of the two children from a small town in Alabama who later became celebrated authors has been written by G Neri

Truman Capote and Harper Lee are cast as misfit children solving an increasingly dangerous mystery in a forthcoming children’s novel out next year.

The young adult writer G Neri’s Tru and Nelle, due in March from Harcourt in the US, is the first time the childhood friendship between Lee and Capote has been written about in depth, the author believes. “I couldn’t believe no one had taken it on,” Neri told the New York Times on Monday. “Both she and Truman used their real lives as fodder for their fiction, and I figured if they did it, maybe I could do it too.”

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