Setting

The setting begins in Monroeville, Alabama, where Nelle grew up. This is where it will stay for the first few chapters until Nelle goes to college - where she will then be in Montgomery, Alabama at Huntingdon College. During college, she goes to Oxford University in Britain as a foreign exchange student. After college, she goes back to Monroeville, and then to New York (to write) where she would live in an apartment in New York City. This is where Nelle will begin writing her book. While working on the book, she is called by Truman and this will cause the setting to move to Kansas, to work on one of Truman Capote's most famous books, In Cold Blood.
In Cold Blood is a nonfiction book about the murder of the Clutter family by two criminals who had been freed from jail and were caught. Truman and Nelle take a train to Chicago, and from there, back to New York City. After two months, they return to Kansas for a trial based on Truman's book, In Cold Blood. She then returns to New York again because of the publishing of To Kill A Mockingbird. In 1960, she returned to Alabama to sign books. She stays for a month, and goes back again to New York. She would go back to Monroeville or  to the house of Maurice and Annie Laurie Crain, the two agents who helped her go to a publisher. Later on, in the middle of production of the film, Harper returns to Kansas to help Truman again. She would return to Alabama during production of the movie to look at the set. Eventually, she would begin to go back and forth between New York and Alabama. She returned to England on vacation, and then back to New York she went. Then, while planning to write a book, she stayed in a motel in Alexander City. She would move to one of her sister's houses at one point. At some point, Nelle would move back to Monroeville, into the home where she had grown up. It seems, however, that she would still be in New York. This is where she lives to the day.






 Speaking of Monroeville, I found this video of a teacher who went to Monroeville, Harper Lee's hometown, to find out about it.

Here is another video about In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote. This is by the same person who created the above video. (This is part 1)  (Part 2)