Biographer of To Kill a Mockingbird author finds unsigned piece on quadruple murder at centre of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood
The discovery of an earlier manuscript from To Kill a Mockingbird 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. It was unsigned, but Shields’s detective work uncovered evidence which appears to confirm its true authorship.
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