Time has called “Mockingbird” the greatest novel of all time. Her impact on American culture and literature is one that will last for centuries. The book store specializes in Lee’s works and the work of other Alabama authors.
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The news was first reported on http://www.al.com, the Alabama website for several newspapers in the state, including Birmingham, Huntsville and Mobile. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and was the source of an Academy Award-winning movie two years later. The black man was defended by Atticus Finch, whose daughter and son were named Scout and Jim. The first chapter to Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” ran in Friday’s editions of The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, as anticipation grows for her first book since “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set to be released on July 14.
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HarperCollins, Lee’s publisher, confirmed the death. She found a publisher interested in her novel and completed it three years later. “There will always be something missing from Monroeville and the world at large in the absence of Harper Lee”. The site also reports services for Lee have not yet been announced. She spoke frequently to the press, wrote about herself and gave speeches, once to a class of cadets at West Point. Lee suffered with dementia and there was quite a bit of controversy around the release of her most recent novel “Go Set a Watchmen”, with some wondering if she was being manipulated or abused in her advanced stage of the disease.
