The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee $27.95
New York, NY: Penguin (2014)
A journalist who befriended the notoriously quiet and private author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” describes her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister and how she eventually moved in next door to the two women and become part of their life in Alabama.
Monday June 15, 2015
Signing: 5:00
Reading: 5:30
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee $17.00
New York, NY: Penguin Books (2015)
A winning, nuanced portrait. . . . It seems unlikely we’ll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life.”USA Today
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. Yet for the last fifty years, the novel’s celebrated author, Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has said almost nothing on the record. But in 2001, Nelle and her sister, Alice Finch Lee, opened their door to Chicago Tribune journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a long conversationand a wonderful friendship. Mills was given a rare opportunity to know Nelle, to be a part of the Lees’ life in Alabama, and to hear them reflect on their upbringing, their corner of the Deep South, howTo Kill a Mockingbird affected their lives, and the reasons Nelle Harper Lee chose never to write another novel.