When Truman Capote and Harper Lee became partners in crime for 'In Cold Blood'
Harper Lee wasn’t Capote’s first choice to help with his writing. He’d wanted to bring along his friend Andrew Lyndon, another young southern writer, but when Lyndon said he couldn’t do it, Capote turned to Lee instead. He was headed out of town for a story, he explained, to a part of the country he barely knew, and he wanted someone to be his “assistant researchist.” It would involve helping him conduct interviews and gather material, and it would require traveling with him