The old tree-house friends walked around Second Avenue, talking in what Benson remembers was an almost private language, sweet and loving, like siblings.
It took a few telephone calls, but finally Lee agreed to sit with Capote for the interview and meet the photographer Harry Benson near Capote’s apartment at the UN Plaza. He was calling it Answered Prayers, a phrase Lee would’ve recognized because he’d borrowed it from Saint Teresa of Ávila: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.” He had signed the contract for the book ten years before and renegotiated it over and over again, but like his friend he hadn’t been able to finish it. People magazine was profiling him, not for the anniversary of In Cold Blood, but for his new project-a tell-all of sorts, only what Capote was telling was other people’s secrets. By then, Capote and Lee were no longer in close touch, but one day in 1976 he called her out of the blue.
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