Tag: HARPER LEE

Lee had that rarest of gifts: an ear for authentic Southern idioms and an eye for telling details. Even in these earlier efforts, she wrestles with how to render a setting that was simultaneously her home and her subject of critique. She loved the South – one cannot read her work and doubt that – but she loved it clear-eyed, without the sentimentality that has ruined lesser fiction.

If you haven’t heard the news, some literary treasure hunters discovered eight previously unknown short stories by Nelle Harper Lee.

Writers and readers gather in "the literary capital of Alabama," Monroeville for the annual Literary Fest Feb. 27-March 1.

On March 1 and 2, “The Courthouse Museum” will be one of the venues for the annual Monroeville Literary Festival. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Thirty-four years later, she published a classic of Southern literature, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”