Harper+Lee+and+Truman+Capote+connection

====Harper Lee and Truman Copote were childhood friends, schoolmates, and neighbors. To Kill a Mockingbird relates to Harper Lee's childhood. The characters are people that she was friends with as a child. Especially her friend Copote. in the book Copote is pertrade as Dill====

====Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends in the early 1930s as kindergarteners in Monroeville, Alabama. They lived next to each other and from the start they loved to read. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories. Even when Capote moved to New York City in the third grade, he still came back to Monroeville for many of the summers, eventually he became the inspiration for Dill in // To Kill a Mockingbird //.==== ====In 1948 Capote published his first novel and around that same time, Lee quit law school and joined Capote in New York to work at becoming a writer, too. After // To Kill a Mockingbird //was published, Capote resented Lee's success. Their friendship continued during the 1960s and '70s, but Capote's drug and alcohol abuse troubled the relationship. When Capote died in 1984, Lee confided to friends that she hadn't heard from him in years.====