What were some of Harper Lee's influences?

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Title kind of sums up the question.

Answer 1

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Truman Capote was a lifelong friend of childhood neighbor Lee, and was allegedly the inspiration for the character of Dill in her best-seller. Lee aspired to become the "Jane Austen of Alabama." Lee wrote about her childhood memories incorporating the Scottsboro trials.

Answer 2

Her fiction was certainly influenced and shaped by her childhood experiences, shared with a brother and two sisters and fellow author-to-be Truman Capote, a frequent summer visitor to Monroeville.

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