Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird author buried in Alabama

Feb 22, 2016, 09:56
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird author buried in Alabama

"Harper Lee was ahead of her time, and her masterpiece To Kill A Mockingbird prodded America to catch up with her", said former president George W. Bush, whose wife Laura is a former librarian.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it".

Orange tulips left by Harper Lee fans are displayed at the old Monroe County Courthouse, along with copies of Lee's two books, in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.

Mockingbirds chirped and frolicked among blooming camellia bushes outside the courthouse on a warm Alabama morning that teased the early arrival of spring.

"She's a part of it and always will be", Mote said.

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It had appeared that Lee's sole literary output would be "To Kill a Mockingbird", especially since she acknowledged she could not top the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. The courthouse is now a museum that pays homage to her creation. There's the Mockingbird Inn on the edge of town and a statute of children reading, "Mockingbird" in the courthouse square. "When I was talking to a group of English honors students at Auburn High School and I asked what the novel is about, a boy raised his hand and said it's about being Mormon in Auburn, Alabama because I'm the other, I'm the Boo Radley".

Actor Gregory Peck and novelist Harper Lee on the movie set of the film To Kill A Mockingbird in 1962. Tickets go on sale in a week for the city's annual "To Kill a Mockingbird" play, Mote said.

The town this summer had a celebration for the release of "Go Set a Watchman" - Lee's initial draft of the story that would become "Mockingbird" - even though many residents had ambivalent feelings about its release.

"She was an Alabama treasure".

Bush, who awarded Lee a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, said she had been a voice for tolerance.

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In addition to the private memorial service, the church opened in the afternoon to allow people to offer their sympathies and best wishes to Lee's extended family and her lawyer, Tonja B. Carter. Flynt said Lee was "savagely witty".

Lee was largely unseen in her hometown in recent years, as she first sought privacy and then was secluded at an assisted living home.

"Everyone in this community always respected that", Green told WIAT.

In 1956 friends Michael and Joy Brown gave Lee a special Christmas gift, a year of financial support so she could work full time on To Kill a Mockingbird.

Friday we got sad news of its author's - Harper Lee - passing. "I'm sure if it weren't for 'To Kill a Mockingbird, ' I wouldn't be doing what I was doing". "That was a book about her dad". "It propelled me towards my love for lit", he said.

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