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 ...

Harper Lee 1926-2016 15 photos. Nelle Harper Lee, ... Lee as a pen name, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for "To Kill a Mockingbird," which was based on her childhood.

Judy Muller speaks with Charles Shields about his new biography of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Shields interviewed hundreds of Lee's acquaintances and researched the papers of her ...

Harper Lee's death on Feb. 19 left many people wondering what treasures may be found in dusty attic trunks or safe deposit boxes. After "Go Set a Watchman," the original manuscript of her iconic ...

We will get to see Lee’s young writer’s imagination exploring the stories of her childhood and finding her voice. Advertisement. The day that Fannie Flagg won the Harper Lee Award, ...

Harper Lee’s aversion to media intrigued me, but not so much that there was a burning need to breach it. ... Tru and Nelle, about Capote and Lee’s childhood friendship, publishes on March 1.

But Lee had once promised to do more. For years following the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, she assured interviewers that she was hard at work. “I would like to leave some record ...

To Kill a Mockingbird was the Huckleberry Finn of the 20th century," said Charles J. Shields, author of a 2006 biography, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. "It redirected American’s gaze ...

Reclusive Harper Lee attended a Library Foundation of Los Angeles awards dinner honoring her in 2005. Reclusive Harper Lee attended a Library Foundation of Los Angeles awards dinner honoring her ...

Does Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' Have ... which Lee actually wrote in the 1950s before Mockingbird and reworked at the request of her editor to focus on Scout’s childhood in Maycomb, ...