Tag: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

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.

Culture is now cannibalistic, feeding on itself.

I don’t care what you’ve heard, community college is the beating heart of America. Your big, fancy schools are well and good. But show me a community college, and I’ll show you the vascular system of this nation.

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.”