"To Kill A Mockingbird" author, Harper Lee, has died

[BetteDavisEyes]

NBC News: 'To Kill A Mockingbird' author Harper Lee dies

Nelle Harper Lee was 89

By Local 4 - ClickOnDetroit news staff

Posted: 11:02 AM, February 19, 2016

Updated: 11:05 AM, February 19, 2016

Harper Lee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died -- according to the mayor in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/to-kill-a-mockingbird-author-harper-lee-dies

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harper-lee-author-kill-mockingbird-dead-89-n521646

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Author Harper Lee dead at 89

Detroit News and wire reports 10:58 a.m. EST February 19, 2016

Harper Lee, the elusive author of best-seller ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ has died at 89, publisher HarperCollins has confirmed. Lee was 89.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is among the most beloved novels in history, with worldwide sales topping 40 million copies. It was released on July 11, 1960, won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a 1962 movie of the same name, starring Gregory Peck in an Oscar-winning performance as the courageous attorney Atticus Finch. Although occasionally banned over the years because of its language and racial themes, the novel has become a standard for reading clubs and middle schools and high schools...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/obituaries/2016/02/19/harper-lee/80605786/

 

[Inthedetails]

RIP to the author of one of my favorite books.

 

[Treelights]

RIP Harper Lee!!

 

[daisymae]

Rest In Peace, Miss Harper


:rose: :rose:

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Author Harper Lee buried in Alabama hometown

Kim Chandler, Associated Press 5:21 p.m. EST February 20, 2016

Monroeville, Ala. — The author of the America classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” was laid to rest Saturday, in a private ceremony attended by only the closest of friends and family, a reflection of how she had lived.

Harper Lee, who died Friday at age 89, was eulogized at a church in the small Alabama town of Monroeville, which the author used as a model for the imaginary town of Maycomb, the setting of Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...-harper-lee-buried-alabama-hometown/80671380/

 

[Inthedetails]

Interesting....

The dirt-cheap NYC apartment where Harper Lee would hide out:
http://nypost.com/2016/02/21/the-dirt-cheap-nyc-apartment-where-harper-lee-would-hide-out/