Harper Lee Publishes After Years of Silence
By Thomas Hanson on July 4, 2006 01:43 AM
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After nearly four decades of almost complete silence, Harper Lee has penned a letter for the July edition of Oprah Winfrey's magazine O.
The brilliant author of one of the most significant books of the last half-century, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee has written a letter that expresses the significance of books for her when she first became a reader as a child. Now 80-years-old, the Pulitzer Prize winner has contributed little in the way of publication since the release of her novel in 1960.
The letter is nothing short of literary coup for Winfrey, another woman from the Deep South. Lee stopped granting interviews nearly forty years ago and only a 1983 book review is listed as a publication credit in the last four decades.
In a way, its fitting that Harper Lee would open up to Oprah. After all, everyone else seems to. |
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dear harper lee my name is jamie graham. and iam a mocking bird too by birth and i was raise in lake ozark mo but i wasnt like boo radley lock up supose to be but like paul harvey said now we know the rest of the story not all mocking birds who are disabled are not monster at all like the world have heard trough the ages but are angel among the people of the earth thanks to your book you made it so
that people will take our hand and we will take theirs and friend ship is born thank you jamie graham
