Lippincott and Company for $1,000 after her editor, Tay Hohoff, suggested she revise the story and expand on flashback sequences set during the narrator’s childhood. Soon, Lee had produced a novel manuscript, titled Go Set a Watchman, which she was able to sell to the publisher J.B. For Christmas in 1956, her good friends Michael and Joy Brown gave her a check equal to a year’s salary, so she could quit her job and devote more time to her writing.
Now a staple of junior high and high school classrooms and the subject of numerous censorship efforts, it offers a vivid depiction of life in the Jim Crow South during the Great Depression.īy the mid-1950s, Lee had followed her dreams of a writing career to New York City, where her childhood friend Truman Capote had already won fame in literary circles. Set in Maycomb, a small Alabama town much like Lee’s native Monroeville, To Kill a Mockingbird is populated with indelible characters, including the book's tomboy narrator, Jean Louise Finch (known as “Scout”), the mysterious recluse Boo Radley and Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, an upstanding lawyer who defends a Black man accused of raping a white woman. It’s a classic book full of life lessons for all ages and children like Scout do have important things to say to us all.On July 11, 1960, the 34-year-old novelist Nelle Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. ” Well, we all have known exactly what kind of book “To Kill a Mockingbird” has always been. Famously, Flannery O’Connor called Lee’s novel “a child’s book” and remarked: “it’s interesting that all the folks that are buying it don’t know they’re reading a child’s book. Michener, Henry Miller and John le Carré ruled the day. “Mockingbird” was a young girl’s coming-of-age story written by an unknown woman set loose in a world of best-selling man’s fiction in the early 1960s: J.D. “To Kill a Mockingbird” was released in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
To put it another way, what she wanted with all her being, was to write - not merely to be a writer.” as I grew to know her better I came to believe that the cause lay in an innate humility and a deep respect for the writing. Charles Shields notes in his book “Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee” that Lee’s lead editor, Theresa von Hohoff, made a commitment to nurture Lee’s abilities: “. The editors at Lippincott, who had not had a bestseller in years, sent Lee back to her writing desk.
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