Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird likely models Dill's characterization after Capote. In Monroeville, Capote was a neighbor and friend of Harper Lee, who would also go on to become an acclaimed author and a lifelong friend of Capote's. "Her face is remarkable – not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind", is how Capote described Sook in " A Christmas Memory" (1956). He formed a fast bond with his mother's distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk, whom Truman called "Sook". His parents divorced when he was two, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mother's relatives. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Lillie Mae Faulk (1905–1954) and salesman Archulus Persons (1897–1981).
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