Laura Miller is a books and culture columnist for Slate and the author of “The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in ...
For much of Harper Lee’s life, “To Kill a Mockingbird” stood alone as her only major work; her first and, apparently, last novel, narrated by a voice so clear and coherent it seemed impossible that it ...
In 1949, Harper Lee quit law school in Alabama and moved to New York City to pursue a writing career. She lived in cheap ...
The previously unpublished eight short stories were written by Harper Lee in the decade before she wrote "To Kill a ...
For a long time the literary world thought "To Kill a Mockingbird," which was later turned into a film starring Gregory Peck, was Lee's only major offering.