Regina Public Library sees generations share love of Harper Lee novels

At 2:57 is a brief, indistinct recording of Lee’s voice as she delivers a simple acceptance speech: “I had a speech prepared, but my heart is too full to make it. All I can say is thank you, all of you, for one of the greatest days of my life”.

The funeral for the famous author of to Kill a Mockingbird was held today in Monroeville.

Bush said while awarding Lee the Medal of Freedom, the highest civil honor that a President can bestow, “This daughter of Monroeville, Alabama, had something to say about honor, and tolerance, and, most of all, love – and it still resonates”.

“Oh no. The great Harper Lee has passed away, ‘ actress Debra Messing said on Twitter”.

The service comes just one day after Lee’s attorney said she had died in her sleep on Friday at age 89 in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Millions who thought they “knew” Atticus Finch, who named their children for him and became lawyers because of him were faced with a seemingly different man in the new book, which took place 20 years later but actually had been written before Lee turned to what became “To Kill a Mockingbird”. He defends a black man charged with rape. Was the Atticus of “Mockingbird” a romanticized figure and the Atticus of “Watchman” closer to the truth? “Name one that really has had more of an impact on Americans than that book”.

Go Set a Watchman is a more complex book than Mockingbird, and perhaps far more reflective of the world around us.

Actor Gregory Peck and novelist Harper Lee on the movie set of the film To Kill A Mockingbird in 1962. “If you adhere to the values she put in that book, if everybody did, we’d be living in a much better world”. “To Kill a Mockingbird”, a novel about race and justice in the South, earned her immediate global acclaim when it was published in 1960.

“You wish somebody like Lee could go on forever and be this lifelong legend”, said Spencer Madrie, owner of the Ol’ Curiosities & Book Shoppe in the town.

‘Rest in peace, Harper Lee.

Though, in Lee’s passing, she left behind a question about her book that might never be answered.

McBride has re-read “Mockingbird” a few times, catching new and important details with each reading, and has given the book to his kids, too.

“I prefer to remember “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Atticus Finch and all those characters as Harper Lee wanted us to remember them”.

“She was still the most brilliant person in any room”, Randall said. The manuscript, set two decades after the events of “Mockingbird”, was an earlier version of the classic novel, and controversy abounded about whether or not Lee was of sound mind to agree to its publication.