Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
(Knopf, 2019}

Harper Lee helped her friend Truman Capote research In Cold Blood. Seventeen years later, she returned to her native Alabama intending to write her own true-crime classic. She spent a year there, interviewing people at the trial of a vigilante relative who shot a rural preacher who had evaded justice after allegedly murdering five family members for insurance money. Exploring the mystery of artistic creativity, this book is a moving portrait of one of history’s most beloved writers and her struggle with fame and success.

8:30 AM | Lewes Public Library

Rhodes Scholar Casey Cep, from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, graduated with a degree in English from Harvard and a Master of Philosophy from Oxford. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic.