. >> between the process of reporting and writing is i think with malcolm coles and of this. so you are there and doing the reporting. you hinted at the structure of the book, and i wonder at what point did you arrive at focusing on these individuals? it came to me that way and it seemed obvious that's how it would work. there was an elegant chronology to that because the reverend was born in 1925 and ties and 77 as far as the book is concerned. this doesn't spoil it for you because this gets handcuffed to the attorney who's kind of climax in th of the story 77 an. immediately he hande hands it oo harper lee said that chronology was undermining the three character sections. >> to finish the book or any other subsequent to mockingbird. it felt kind of intimate or granular. it seems to be a function of the way in which the lives of african-americans were recorded in the paper trail that would have been available at the time dido you confront similar challenges and how do you deal with them? >> i try to be conspicuous about them in the book and also in the nodes but you are rely