‘Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee buried in Alabama hometown

Friday we got sad news of its author’s – Harper Lee – passing.

Fact and Fiction manager Beverly Theroux grew up with the book and says the store still sells several copies a year.

Kim Chandler/AP Harper Lee was buried in the same cemetery as her father and sister.

Tickets for the city’s annual “Mockingbird” play go on sale in a week for the city’s annual “To Kill A Mockingbird” play, Mote said. “It will stand up like Little Women it will always be used to talk about how race issues had been handled and should be handled”.

“There is no question in my mind that Harper Lee is a great American writer with the best of intentions”.

As we all know, Lee didn’t publish another novel for 55 years and then came out with a prequel, Go Set a Watchman, in 2015, throwing her readers and the publishing world into a quandary. Lee had wanted a quick and quiet funeral without pomp or fanfare, family members said.

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”.

Spencer Madrie, owner of the Ol’ Curiosities & Book Shoppe dedicated to the work of Lee and other Southern authors, said Monroeville was in a sombre mood.

“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. She was a student of law at the University herself but, six months before finishing her studies, moved to NY to pursue a literary career instead.

In one of the few interviews she ever granted, she offered a glimpse into her thoughts, saying “I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me”.

According to a statement released by Lee’s family Friday, she died in her sleep early that morning in her hometown of Monroeville. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience”.

Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, has died. Her mannerly, down-home approach undoubtedly smoothed the way for the flamboyant Capote.

But it is Atticus who shocks her and To Kill a Mockingbird fans. He also said Lee’s contribution to Capote’s “In Cold Blood” was greater than believed.

In 2006 Lee wrote a piece for O magazine about developing a childhood love of books, even though they were scarce in Monroeville. “Just remember her fondly and enjoy the words she worked so hard to put on paper”.