American novelist (1926–2016)
She wrote one of the most assigned novels in American schools, then went silent for half a century. To Kill a Mockingbird arrived in 1960, won the Pulitzer, and Lee published almost nothing else until an earlier draft surfaced two months before her death.
Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, where she watched her neighbors and a 1936 local incident that would shape the bones of To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel arrived in 1960 — a child's-eye view of race, class, and irrational hatred in the 1930s Deep South — and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. She helped her close friend Truman Capote research In Cold Blood, then published nearly nothing for decades. In July 2015, Go Set a Watchman appeared, an earlier draft set later in the same world. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 and died February 19, 2…
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Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.
Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
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