"Here is a book about a woman who knew when to get off the train. A tomboy from Monroeville, Ala., editor of her college humor magazine, The Rammer Jammer, and law school dropout, she took it on the lam to New York, got a job, made friends and managed to write a novel that hit the best-seller lists and stayed there, won a Pulitzer, got made into a major movie and became a staple of high school English along with "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Great Gatsby." Total sales are somewhere around 30 million, and it continues to sell hundreds of thousands of copies a year. As her father, A. C. Lee, said, "it's very rare indeed when a thing like this happens to a country girl going to New York."
So, who are we talking about here? None other than Harper Lee, the author of that wonderful and still best-selling book, "To Kill a Mockingbird". The film of the book is no less well-known, even today.
Read this marvellous pen-portrait, here, of the author in a review in the NY Times, written by another well-known figure, Garrison Keiller, of a new book "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee".
So, who are we talking about here? None other than Harper Lee, the author of that wonderful and still best-selling book, "To Kill a Mockingbird". The film of the book is no less well-known, even today.
Read this marvellous pen-portrait, here, of the author in a review in the NY Times, written by another well-known figure, Garrison Keiller, of a new book "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee".
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