The Reverend
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In small-town life and in rural life, one knows one's neighbor's. Life is slower there. We simply entertain each other by talking. It's quite a thing if you've never gone or if you've never known a southern small town.
This is Harper Lee, speaking to WQXR, a New York radio station, in 1964.
The people there are not particularly worldly-wise in any way. But they tell you a story every time you see one. We are oral types. We talk.
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She's best known for her book, To Kill a Mockingbird. She submitted the completed manuscript to her publisher in 1959. Five days later, she packed her things and moved to Garden City, Kansas, to research a crime that had been making national headlines. The Clutters, a wealthy family of four, had been murdered. She went with her childhood friend and next-door neighbor, author Truman Capote. He'd invited her to be his research assistant. They agreed on a fee of $900. She was excited to work on nonfiction, to learn how to tell a true crime story. She later told a reporter, "...the crime intrigued him, and I'm intrigued with crime, and boy, I wanted to go."
So if you go to the New York Public Library, you can look in the Capote archive at these extraordinary reporting notes that Harper Lee made for Truman Capote in 1959 and 1960 during their first few reporting trips in Kansas. Author, Casey Sepp. And, you know, she's an incredibly scrupulous reporter. She made these very detailed notes for him.
Truman Capote published a series of pieces about the clutter murders in The New Yorker, then later expanded them into a book, In Cold Blood. Harper Lee had spent six years helping him research and shape the book, and her role was widely known to the people in Kansas. But Truman Capote never acknowledged that she'd helped report or tell the story. Some people have speculated that he didn't give her credit because he was jealous. To Kill a Mockingbird had made Harper Lee famous. She won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Here she is in 1964.
Well, my objectives are very limited. I simply want to do the best I can with the talent that God gave me, I suppose. I would... like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class, southern life. In other words, all I want to be is a Jane Austen of South Alabama.
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