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 ...

Molly Lee is talking to me about the tales her aunt Nelle, known to the world as Harper Lee, would weave for her when she was a little girl. "She was just a great storyteller," says the 77-year-old ...

For a long time the literary world thought "To Kill a Mockingbird," which was later turned into a film starring Gregory Peck, ...

Recently discovered stories by 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee are combined with essays and a crackling bread recipe in 'The Land of Sweet Forever,' a collection that adds to her slim canon.

American novelist Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, pictured in 2007 - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The stories are unmistakably Lee: they are full of childhood angst, race relations in ...