Photo by Truman Capote of Lee from the first edition back book jacket of To Kill A Mockingbird, public domain To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) is one of the most frequently challenged books in the USA because its themes of rape and use of profanity and racial slurs. While numerous … [Read more...]
#RIP: “To Kill a Mockingbird” Author, Harper Lee
Harper Lee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died. The famously reclusive author had been living in an assisted living facility after suffering a stroke in 2007 that forced her to move home from New York, where she had lived for decades. Lee's … [Read more...]
Literary Bombshell! Harper Lee to Publish a Second Book!
Harper Lee, the ultra-reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, will publish her SECOND book this summer. Go Set a Watchman was completed in the 1950s, but set aside by the writer, who went on to … [Read more...]
