NPR - Harper Lee, Author Of 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' Dies At Age 89

[The Evil Genius]

RIP to a great. More at link.

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/19/467348051/harper-lee-to-kill-a-mockingbird-author-reportedly-dies-at-age-89

 

 

Harper Lee, the author of the classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird, has died in her hometown of Monroeville, Ala. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer was 89.

 

Monroeville city officials confirmed reports of Lee's death to Alabama Public Radio. Her publisher, HarperCollins, also confirmed the news to NPR.

 

Her famous novel about a young girl's experience of racial tensions in a small Southern town has sold tens of millions of copies and been translated into dozens of languages.

 

Lee made headlines last year, on the news that a companion to her beloved novel would be coming out some 55 years after To Kill A Mockingbird was first published in 1960. When that book, Go Set a Watchman, was published last summer, it set off debates about the author's health and how involved she had been in the project.

 

[ixcuincle]

Rip.

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

I'm not convinced that Go Set a Watchman was ever meant to be published.

[Dan T.]

I'm not convinced that Go Set a Watchman was ever meant to be published.

I have no idea what kind of shape Harper Lee was in mentally toward the end, but I'll bet there's a somewhat sleazy story behind its publication.

[Kilmer17]

I've decided to just pretend like it never was

Rip

[abdcskins]

I need to read To Kill a Mockingbird again.  I appreciate good literature and art.  RIP.

[s0crates]

Mockingbird is easily one of the best American novels.

RIP Harper Lee.

[TheGoodBits]

Watching To Kill a Mockingbird on Netflix this evening.