To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee dies

She renounces in 1949 to law school to try his luck in the literature in NY.

The unpublished book is a crime story called “The Reverend” based on a true story involving a pastor who killed three people and was acquitted of murder, said Mr Flynt, a professor at Auburn University who has known Lee for more than 30 years.

Mr Flynt said he had not asked Lee about “The Reverend”. “I was plain afraid for you to read it and go through the bitter disappointment of two years wasted effort a’borning a writer”, she wrote.

Fifty Shades Of Grey author, E L James, tweeted: “RIP Harper Lee”.

Then, the second twist: Last year, after some 55 years of waiting, Lee decided it was time to publish a second novel, Go Set a Watchman.

Precocious child, she had learned to read very early, playing in Monroeville being one of the few distractions.

“I did not expect any success for To Kill A Mockingbird”, she says, adding she thought killing by critics.

“She was coming up on 90 in a couple of months and we talked about her birthday, and I said my wife was going to bring a cake and we were going to put 90 candles on it and burn down the entire town of Monroeville as she tried to blow out the candles”, Flynt said. From there was born To Kill A Mockingbird, with the same characters.

In 1959, when the rewritten novel passed muster, Ms. Lee expressed her relief in a letter to Ms. Williams.

There, Lee reunited with her childhood friend and fellow writer Truman Capote, assisting him in the research that led to his famous novel “In Cold Blood”.

Here are some interesting facts about Lee’s life and work.

For many years, Lee, a shy woman with an engaging Southern drawl who never married, lived quietly and privately, always turning down interview requests. “Watchman” (both the initial draft and the one published recently) followed the same characters as “Mockingbird”, in Maycomb, Alabama, but 20 years later, at which point Scout is an adult and, as it turns out, Atticus Finch has become a bigot.

“She chortled”, Flynt told AL.com at the time. Lee did not publish another novel for more than five decades, and she refused almost every attempt by the press to speak with her. “She had lots of people she adored”. She never tried to be anything her entire life except who she was.