Why Some Believe Harper Lee Isn’t the Real Author of “To Kill a Mockingbird”?

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Why Some Believe Harper Lee Isn’t the Real Author of “To Kill a Mockingbird”?

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Why there is so many doubt about the real author of ' To Kill a Mockingbird'?
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📍 One of the most important reading experiences of recent times is Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird". It is a popular novel worldwide, with both doubts and questions. Let's look behind interesting circumstances of "To Kill a Mockingbird".
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@chicagonorthcoast Жыл бұрын

i will repeat: there is NO way the egotistical, self-aggrandizing, attention-seeking, deceitful, and endlessly envious Capote would have let Harper Lee walk away with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an award he greatly coveted and never won if he'd so much as proof-read the first three paragraphs of the novel. It is well-documented that Capote was insanely jealous of Lee for receiving that award and quite bitter about it. The whole thing caused a rift in their friendship that never healed but grew wider until his death in 1984. In any case, Lee was also not only extremely honest, but modest, self-effacing, and naturally giving, which is why she did not crow to the world the massive contribution she made to the writing of IN COLD BLOOD while the two were researching the murders in Kansas. There's no way Capote could have gotten to first base with the hostile, frightened people of Finney County, and it was not only Lee who charmed these people and got them to talk, for they despised the flamboyant Capote on sight, while he seemed to be exerting himself to be downright offensive, it was also Lee who took 150 pages of notes, the very notes that Capote claimed he did not need. Yet he did not even include her in his acknowledgments, while the pay he gave her was trivial relative to the contributions she made. Then, there is the style of writing, which is almost like a fingerprint- the book is written in a style that is a world apart from Capote's, and he couldn't have written it any more than she could have written BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S.

@PacoOtis 2 ай бұрын

An excellent comment! You sent me to the dictionary for your use of "crow" as I had never seen it used in that manner. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and best of luck!

@chicagonorthcoast 2 ай бұрын

@@PacoOtis , Harper Lee said later, remarking on Capote's extreme jealousy of her, that "I did something he could not forgive, which is write a novel that sold."

@LPMAN02 8 ай бұрын

RIP Truman Capote (September 30, 1924 - August 25, 1984), aged 59 And RIP Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016), aged 89 You both will be remembered as legends.

@poetcomic1 Жыл бұрын

Harper Lee's editors for Mockingbird brilliantly shaped the Atticus Finch everyone knows and loves. Almost as horrendous as Capote's Answered Prayers fiasco was the Harper Lee release of Watchman. It did absolutely nothing but sully her own bigger than life characters and story.

@chicagonorthcoast Жыл бұрын

I agree. That book would have been better left in her desk drawer.

@gabrielafonseca4034 6 ай бұрын

Have you read both authors? Styles are completely different. Of course Capote would like to take credit. I love his books but privately he wasn't exactly known for his sincerity or being loyal to his friends

@frugalwitch 2 жыл бұрын

More likely that Harper co-wrote In Cold Blood

@poetcomic1 Жыл бұрын

She helped shape the material and collected it but Capote was a superb stylist and in every line you can see his unique mark.

@MrTsiolkovsky 7 ай бұрын

Harper fans won't understand.@@poetcomic1

@chicagonorthcoast 2 ай бұрын

@@MrTsiolkovsky I'm a Harper fan and I understand. ICB was very much Truman's book, just as To Kill a Mockingbird was very much Lee's. Neither could have written the other's book. Capote was a wonderful stylist, though in my opinion, his best works were Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Grass Harp. Only Capote could have created a character like Holly Golightly, maybe because she was Truman in a female form. And only Lee could have told a story or created characters like those in Mockingbird.

@PacoOtis 2 ай бұрын

An excellent video with excellently presented comments! Best of luck!

@ruthlawrence8046 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Age of Vintage, How are you? Another great in insight into the brilliant Harper Lee & Truman Capote. I honestly believe that Harper Lee did write To Kill a Mockingbird & not Truman Capote. As Harper became catapulted into the Spotlight on the release of the now infamous book, Capote became eaten away with jealousy that she had written a best selling book, whilst he was still toiling away. I think they became estranged as Capote probably read a chapter or two of Harper's book, & knew she was on to a winner. I don't think for a minute that Capote wrote it for her, as he became so jealous over her sucess he wouldn't have been able to hold it back & deny he was the real author. Such a shame he took that path & became estranged from her, jealousy play's a terrible part in some people's lives that it consumes them, & they can't let it go. Love Love from Australia 🇦🇺📖✒❤💚💛💜💙🌹🌹⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘💋💋💋

@ageofvintage2106 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ruth for your comment! 🙂

@ruthlawrence8046 4 жыл бұрын

@@ageofvintage2106 👋 Hello, how are you ? Thankyou as always for your lovely reply, I have the greatest respect for all your hard work. Hope you have a lovely day. With the kindest regards Ruth. 🇦🇺❤❤⚘⚘

@ageofvintage2106 4 жыл бұрын

🙂 ❤️

@ruthlawrence8046 4 жыл бұрын

@@ageofvintage2106 Awe your so sweet ❤

@lioness7582 Жыл бұрын

I believe that's true Harper Lee wrote it.

@lindseycarribean5113 3 жыл бұрын

The picture coming from the book became a masterpiece earning to Gregory Peck an Academy Award and Robert Duvall made his acting debut in it. Capote disliked Audrey Hepburn and preferred Miss M.M. for Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Hard to imagine when we know how iconic this film became and the strong Audrey image ’s associated to it.

@ageofvintage2106 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the informations! 🙂

@jokester696 9 ай бұрын

This was going well, and then the narrator said something about people not knowing Harper Lee was a female. He then proceeds to call her "Nelly" Harper Lee. It was Nelle Pronounced "Nell" Harper Lee. Don't say how ignorant people are about not knowing that Harper Lee was a woman, and then pronounce her name incorrectly. She used "Harper" because she thought people would pronounce "Nelle" as "Nelly". Apparently the people doing factual videos on her are getting her name wrong. How correct she was about "Nelle".

@freddyfurrah3789 3 ай бұрын

They both helped each other with both books. In Cold Blood and TO KILL A Mockingbird.

@terr777 Жыл бұрын

He never would have named himself "Dil". It's documented that she accompanied him when he went to Kansas to write In Cold Blood. I think if anyone helped anyone, it's the other way around.

@tatie7604 11 ай бұрын

Agreed. If both books had never been written, it would be the best thing that ever happened.

@HoldenNY22 2 жыл бұрын

The Narrator said Capote never wrote anolther Novel aftder "in Cold Blood." I thought that Capote wrote- Breakfast at Tiffnany's. Can someone please clarify this? The fact that she never wrote another novel or as far as I know even another Short Story makes one wonder if Truman at least helped her write- To Kill a Mockingbir, if not wrote a good part of it.

@zhenghao123 2 жыл бұрын

He wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's before that.

@chicagonorthcoast Жыл бұрын

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S was written years before ICB. It was published in 1958. And you have to be daft to believe that someone with an ego like Truman's- an ego as bloated and diseased as his liver- would have let Lee walk off with the 1961 Pulitizer Prize for Fiction if he'd had the tiniest thing to do with writing her novel. If he'd even done a line edit on one paragraph, he would have tried to take credit for the whole thing. He was MADLY jealous of her for winning the Pulitzer, a prize he coveted but never won, and his jealousy of her wrecked their friendship.

@robertsantana3261 Жыл бұрын

O really? She might not have written it? Please.

@sherrillsturm7240 5 ай бұрын

Capote also wrote a novella that became famous, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," although the movie was quite different from his work, it has lasting appeal. As to who wrote Mockingbird, why not a woman?

@chicagonorthcoast 2 ай бұрын

IMO, Breakfast at Tiffany's is his finest work.

@ladedalounge 2 жыл бұрын

I know a lot about these two....I would think when Truman tossed his friends under the bus he would out Harper for attention. Yet, I must admit.....this is something to think of.

@brmbkl Жыл бұрын

Truman never tossed his friends under the bus, only ppl that called themselves friends.

@chicagonorthcoast Жыл бұрын

@@brmbkl, Truman tossed everyone under the bus. Harper Lee, Al Dewey, his "swans", and even the two thugs he wrote about.

@francoisdelmar3 Ай бұрын

HL wrote 2 books and lived to 90, 2nd book is really a draft for the "masterpiece". Who was her editor? Much revision went into Watchman to make it an absurdly good tale. HL shunned all publicity, her right to do so, of course. But most artists are very proud of their accomplishments. It does not mean TC wrote TKAMB, but no, i don't think HL wrote it, not w/o lots of help. If I'm wrong, I beg forgiveness from her and her fans.

@thomashamilton9582 11 ай бұрын

Yes, Harper Lee wrote to kill a mockingbird

@Indomita506 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the narrator gets repetitive.

@sisterrose6830 5 ай бұрын

He ruined his friendship with Tennessee Willams too .

@dagothkid6372 Жыл бұрын

I live Capote, but this is b.s.

@SandyFrazier Жыл бұрын

They keep flashing up pictures of the film TKAM while talking about In Cold Blood. Nonetheless, I've always believed Capote wrote TKAM and not Lee.

@chicagonorthcoast Жыл бұрын

So help me, if I hear this one more time, I'll howl. How can anyone believe that someone as egotistical, jealousy-prone, self-aggrandizing, and greedy for acclaim as Capote would let Lee walk away with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a prize he coveted and never won if he'd had the tiniest thing to do with producing that novel? If he'd made even the most insignificant contribution, he'd have tried to cop credit for the whole thing, for it is documented that he was insanely jealous of her for having won the prize, and he never forgave her. He didn't even include her in his acknowledgments in ICB for all the work she did for him in Kansas while he was researching the town and the killings. And please go back and reread his books and hers, and you will see that they're a universe apart in style. He couldn't have written her book any more than she could have written his.

@sarahalbers5555 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@maryanneturner5088 3 жыл бұрын

In cold blood was not his last í novel

@HoldenNY22 2 жыл бұрын

That is what I thought.

@chicagonorthcoast Жыл бұрын

Yes, it was his last full-length novel. IN COLD BLOOD and BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S , which he published in 1958, well before ICB, were not only his greatest works but the only full length novels he wrote. ANSWERED PRAYERS doesn't count because the full-length manuscript has never been found and most likely does not exist. He was so dispirited by the reception that "La Cote Basque" received (like, what did he expect?), that he stopped working on it.

@richardmcleod1930 Жыл бұрын

I believe she came up with the idea and Truman Capote would on occasion help Harper Lee with the writing of the novel. After all they were very close friends.

@chicagonorthcoast Жыл бұрын

How on Earth can you believe that someone as egotistical, self-aggrandizing, inherently deceitful, and hungry for applause as Capote would let Harper Lee walk off with a Pulitzer Prize if he'd had anything to do with producing her book? That guy's ego was even more bloated and diseased than his liver, and he was madly jealous of Lee for having won a Pulitzer, a prize he coveted and never won. You had better believe that if he had so much as done a line edit of the top page, he'd have tried to cop credit for the whole thing. His jealousy of her success, and his likely recognition that her book was better than anything he ever wrote, pretty much ended their friendship.

@chicagonorthcoast 2 ай бұрын

Please, you cannot seriously believe that Capote had the first thing to do with Lee's novel. There is no way that the egotistical, deceitful, self-aggrandizing Capote would have permitted Lee to walk away with a Pulitzer prize for that novel if he'd had anything to do with writing it. If he'd so much as edited a page, he'd try to claim credit for the whole thing. It's known that he was insanely jealous of her for winning it as nothing he wrote had ever won a major literary prize, and his jealousy of her success caused a breach in their friendship. Lee was also not the type of person who would have withheld credit from Capote. On the other hand, he never gave her credit for the copious assistance she rendered him when they were out in Kansas together researching ICB. He couldn't have gotten to first base with the denizens of Finney County without her, for they were instantly alienated by him while being charmed by her warmth and directness. People, in particular people close to the Clutters like Nancy's best friend, told her things they would never have told him, like a verbatim account of the last phone conversation between Susan and Nancy. Then there were all the copious notes Lee took, while Truman claimed not the need to take notes. Yet he didn't even include Lee in his acknowledgments.

@richardmcleod1930 2 ай бұрын

@@chicagonorthcoast You are probably right in your assessment. Truman was an egomaniac of the first order. Truman and Harper's only stable lifestyle was when they lived in Monroeville, Alabama. Thank goodness such a small Alabama town can offer such stability.