![]() ![]() It gives wonderful information and insight into the intensely private author but is written in such a way that it doesn't sensationalize or delve into generally unpleasant matters (the murder of the Clutter Family in Kansas which was the basis of her frenemy Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which Lee was instrumental in creating but which Capote downplayed her assistance). Shields' adult biography, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, is an excellent read for the target audience. ![]() I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee, is the juvenile version of Charles J. Henry Holt & Co., New York.Īs part of the recent Youth Literature class, as well as the fact that after fifty-plus years, Harper Lee is coming out with a second book ( Go Set a Watchman), I think it would be nice to look over the life of this intensely private but pugnacious person: Miss Nelle Harper Lee, author of one of the Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century: To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]()
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