Good analogy, I thought of the same thing. And they (Michael and Joy Brown) knew Lee well and had a good assessment of her talent. From this PBS article (http:/

Good analogy, I thought of the same thing. And they (Michael and Joy Brown) knew Lee well and had a good assessment of her talent. From this PBS article (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/harper-lee-hey-boo-interview-with-director-mary-murphy/2025/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/harper-lee-hey-boo-i...): "Lee shared some of her writing with her friends. “We read character sketches that she wrote about people in Monroeville,” said Michael. “And they were unusually perceptive. How could two people like Truman and Nelle be such close friends as children and grow up to see things the rest of us couldn’t envision? She just amazed us.” This short NPR article also has some interesting information as well as a photo of Lee taken around the time of that 1956 Christmas mentioned: http://www.npr.org/2015/07/10/421812608/how-harper-lee-went-from-wannabe-writer-to-the-jane-austen-of-alabama http://www.npr.org/2015/07/10/421812608/how-harper-lee-went-...