By Rosemary Hope This is the story of my house and the foursome who gathered for dinner Christmas Day 1959: Truman Capote, Nelle Harper Lee, and my parents, Dolores and Clifford Hope Jr. It was at the beginning of Truman’s seven or so years of entanglement with Kansas for In Cold Blood, his 1966 nonfiction novel chronicling the murders of the Herbert Clutter family and the prosecution of their killers.