Full Coverage: Harper Lee | 1926-2016
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The author of the American classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” was laid to rest Saturday in a private ceremony attended by only the closest of friends and family, a reflection of how she had lived.
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“To Kill a Mockingbird,” the classic 1960 novel about racism in a small Southern town, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, became a staple of high school reading lists and turned its author into one of American literature’s most revered figures.
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Bestselling young-adult writer Margaret Stohl’s “Beautiful Creatures,” co-written with Kami Garcia, is about supernatural teens who read “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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Although for decades she only had one published book to her name, Harper Lee influenced generations of readers worldwide who fell in love with her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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As news of the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee filters around the globe, so do Twitter reactions upon, not just her passing, but her life.
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The publication of Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” this summer rocked the publishing world and dominated literary conversations around the globe.
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“Go Set a Watchman,” the surprise second novel by Harper Lee, has proven to be a hit with readers.
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Two years after Harper Lee’s 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published to critical acclaim and commercial success, the tale of righteous lawyer Atticus Finch and his precocious daughter Scout was adapted into an Oscar-winning film that further etched the story in the popular consciousness.
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After five decades, readers are finally returning to Maycomb, the fictional Alabama town of Harper Lee’s beloved 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” only to find one of its most famous residents nearly unrecognizable.
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On Tuesday morning, Harper Lee’s “Go Set A Watchman” goes on sale nationwide.
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Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” won’t be released to the public until Tuesday, but readers already know that the book reveals a darker side to Atticus Finch.
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Editor’s note: Author Harper Lee has died at the age of 89.
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Let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: Why should the revelations in “Go Set a Watchman” -- most notably, its portrait of Atticus Finch as a segregationist -- change the way we think about Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
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It would be a mistake to read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” as a sequel to her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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Monroeville, Ala., rests approximately 100 miles equidistant from Mobile and Montgomery, not on the way to anywhere, but it has become a key stop on the literary map of America thanks to Harper Lee and her next-door neighbor and childhood best friend, Truman Capote.
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It’s the biggest literary surprise of the 21st century: On July 13, 55 years after the publication of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the reclusive 89-year-old Harper Lee will publish her second book.
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To reread “To Kill a Mockingbird” in advance of Tuesday’s release of Harper Lee’s much-anticipated follow-up, “Go Set a Watchman,” is not so much an exercise in nostalgia as in cognitive dissonance.
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A collection of letters written by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee failed to sell at auction Friday at Christie’s in New York.
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Reese Witherspoon will give voice to the adult Scout — and all the other characters — in Harper Lee’s new novel, “Go Set a Watchman.”
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An “exceptionally rare” collection of letters written by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee to a friend will be auctioned in New York next week, Reuters reports, and could fetch up to $250,000.
