Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

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<p><b>"A fine, well-rounded portrait of Harper Lee. Mockingbird is good reading."―Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)</b></p><p><i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i>―the twentieth century's most widely read American novel―has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite her book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee, has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields brings to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters―Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout.</p><p>At the center of Shields's evocative, lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel, but her colorful life contains many highlights―her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Truman Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of <i>In Cold Blood</i>. <i>Mockingbird</i>―unique, highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart―is a wide-ranging, idiosyncratic portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.</p>