Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

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Macmillan, 30 մյս, 2006 թ. - 337 էջ
The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird--the classic that became a touchstone for generations of Americans

To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite the book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields has brought to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters--Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout--and who contributed to the success of her lifelong friend Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood.

At the center of Shields's lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel. But her life contains many other highlights as well: her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of the Clutter murders; the surrogate family she found in New York City.

Drawing on six hundred interviews and much new information, Mockingbird is the first book ever written about Harper Lee. Highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart, this is an evocative portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.

 

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Introduction
1
1 The Making of Me
11
2 Ellen Spelled Backward
31
3 Without Finishing Touches
60
4 Rammer Jammer
83
5 Atticus Becomes To Kill a Mockingbird
112
6 See NLs Notes
136
7 Mockingbird Takes Off
180
8 Oh Mr Peck
203
9 The Second Novel
232
10 Quiet Time
264
Notes
287
Bibliography
311
Acknowledgments
323
Index
325
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Charles J. Shields is the author of "And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life," "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee," the highly acclaimed, bestselling biography of Harper Lee, and "I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee" (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers). He grew up in the Midwest and taught in a rural school in central Illinois for several years. He has been a reporter for public radio, a journalist, and the author of nonfiction books for young people. He and his wife live near Charlottesville, Virginia.

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