Nelle Harper Lee is best known for her novel To Kill a Mocking Bird, published in July 1960. Originally named "Atticus", it was an immediate success .Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1926, on April 28. Among Lee's childhood friends was the novelist Truman Capote. Lee worked with Capote on an article in the New Yorker that later evolved into his nonfiction masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Lee described Capote as follows: “Beautiful things floated in his dream head,” Lee fashioned Dill, the lonely boy next door after Capote. (Shields 22) Capote remained a key player in Lee's life and career until his death. Lee developed an interest in English literature while attending secondary school. After graduating in 1944, she attended Huntington College, then transferred to the University of Alabama where she worked for the school newspaper and was editor of the humor magazine "Rammer Jammer." During her first year, Lee transferred to the law division. After her first year of law school, she left law school and went to the University of Oxford in England on an academic exchange....