Over the
last several years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the late authorand the process by
which he produced his classic of American literature . The release in 2005
of the film Capote and of Infamous the following year, which similarly explored the authors
relationships to his subjects and to the author of To Kill a Mockingbird,
Harper Lee, served to resurrect interest in this eccentric writer and his most well-known work.
The most important development relevant to the matter at hand, however, was the discovery in
2013 of old records from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the agency that investigated the
murders that formed the basis of Capotes book, that strongly suggested Capote had been less than
truthful both in his reporting and his comments regarding the process by which he wrote
In Cold Blood.
All of this may or not be pertinent to a
discussion of Capotes relationship to convicted and executed murderer Perry Smith. In
all...
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