Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones. Stohl is the bestselling author of nine young adult novels and a co-founder of YALLWEST and YALLFEST book festivals. MORE ON HARPER LEE: ...

Better than OK, as it turned out: Nelle and Tru, 6- and 7-year-old neighbors in small-town Alabama in the 1930s, are Harper Lee and Truman Capote, who each became titanic literary figures.

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, ...

July 9, 2010— -- For so many people across the country, both young and old, one name comes to mind when they think about the reading of their childhood -- Harper Lee. To this day, on the eve ...

Harper Lee’s short fiction, soon to be published as part of a collection called “The Land of Sweet Forever,” shows her experimenting with characters and themes that would later appear in ...

In 1957, when she was 31 years old, Harper Lee submitted her first attempt at a novel to the publisher J.B. Lippincott. Titled ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ it was set in the ’50s and opened with a ...

Harper Lee 1926-2016 15 photos. Nelle Harper Lee, of "To Kill a Mockingbird" fame, has died at 89 in her hometown of Monroeville, ... she was told to rewrite it with a younger Scout.

Fifty-five years after “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee is publishing a second book, her publisher said Tuesday. “Go Set a Watchman,” which Lee completed in the 1950s and then set aside ...

The museums have their headquarters in Monroeville’s 1903 courthouse, where the young Nelle Harper Lee used to watch trials unfold. In 1963, the county’s legal business moved to a more modern ...

Harper Lee novel cover unveiled 00:52 "Go Set a Watchman," the most unexpected second novel in memory, is coming out July 14. It takes place in the 1950s, 20 years after the setting for "To Kill a ...