If there's one book you should read before you die, it's To Kill a Mockingbird. That's not my opinion. Apparently I was sick back in ninth grade when every other American kid read Harper Lee's novel ...

Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” brings to mind Fyodor Dostoevsky’s observation that, if asked not to think of a polar bear, it would be impossible to think of anything else. The same is just as true ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) — To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one of the ...

When both the right and the left criticize parts of any agreement, negotiators know they’ve found the sweet spot. The same is true for books. "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee's classic novel set in ...

The author of the American classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” was laid to rest Saturday, in a private ceremony attended by only the closest of friends and family, a reflection of how she had lived.

MONROEVILLE, Ala. (AP) – On a day when mockingbirds sang outside the courthouse that inspired her classic American novel, author Harper Lee was laid to rest in a private ceremony, a reflection of how ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Mockingbird paints a perilous future of a declining human population, fueled by drugs and ...

Can you kill a mockingbird today without overkilling it? Sixty-three years after Harper Lee's iconic American novel released to instant controversy and enduring acclaim - nary a high schooler gets to ...

CLAIM: The state of Florida banned “To Kill a Mockingbird” in schools, along with a number of other popular titles on a “Banned Book List.” THE FACTS: Florida hasn’t forced schools to stop teaching ...

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