Harper Lee's death on Feb. 19 left many people wondering what treasures may be found in dusty attic trunks or safe deposit boxes. After "Go Set a Watchman," the original manuscript of her iconic novel ...

Charles Shields is the author of "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, from Scout to Go Set A Watchman." Author photo courtesy of Michael Bailey. Harper Lee's February death was the conclusion of a ...

Today in books and publishing: an unauthorized Carly Simon biography will restore your faith in unauthorized biographies, a note from Harper Lee to a young fan, and poet Carl Sandburg's house is ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the ...

For years before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee wrote short stories with themes that she would later explore in that now-classic novel: small town gossip and politics, tender and ...

On Feb. 3, Harper Lee, the beloved author of the American classic “To Kill A Mockingbird,” made a shocking statement. To the surprise of her fans and the general public, the 88-year-old author ...

In 1959, a grisly quadruple murder shook the rural community of Holcomb, Kansas. A wealthy farmer named Herbert Clutter was found murdered inside his home along with his wife and two teenage ...

Around the same time “To Kill a Mockingbird” made Harper Lee a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, she was still fighting for creative control. “I must say it’s increasingly difficult for ...

UCLA Library Special Collections has released “the only known recorded interview” with Harper Lee about “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The 11-minute interview, conducted in 1964 by Roy Newquist for New York ...