Charles Shields is the author of "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, from Scout to Go Set A Watchman." Author photo courtesy of Michael Bailey. Harper Lee's February death was the conclusion of a ...

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 novel ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the ...

On Feb. 3, Harper Lee, the beloved author of the American classic “To Kill A Mockingbird,” made a shocking statement. To the surprise of her fans and the general public, the 88-year-old author ...

"And something else was in the Lord & Taylor box," Carter continues. "The manuscript for Watchman was underneath a stack of a significant number of pages of another typed text." Joe Raedle/Getty ...

As profound an act as writing "To Kill a Mockingbird" and releasing it, was Harper Lee’s refusal to elaborate, writes Alex Green. Lee, pictured here in 1963, died Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. She was 89.

NEW YORK - Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, "To Kill a Mockingbird," became standard reading for millions of young people and an ...

Considering she only published two novels, 55 years apart, any letter written by the late Harper Lee tended to have added significance. And now Emory University is home to a number of them.

This morning, word came that Harper Lee, the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” had died, at the age of eighty-nine. Lee was one of the most important and one of the most mysterious figures in ...

UCLA Library Special Collections has released “the only known recorded interview” with Harper Lee about “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The 11-minute interview, conducted in 1964 by Roy Newquist for New York ...

When I was working on the Harper Lee biography and she declined to be interviewed, I knew I had to speak to some women of her generation. Brown and Bell are 10 years older than Harper Lee, but they ...