Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated
into over 40 languages, sold 40 million copies, and has never been out of print.
Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize
winner and was made into an Academy Award winning movie
The novel is the
most widely read book in grades 9-12. In a recent survey, the Bible came in second to Mockingbird as most inspirational book. Miss
Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
However, Miss
Lee shunned the spotlight.
“By the accounts of friends and Monroeville residents, she was a warm, vibrant
and witty woman who played golf, fished, ate at McDonald's, fed ducks by
tossing seed corn out of a Cool Whip tub, read voraciously, and got about to
plays and concerts. She just didn't want to talk about it before an audience.”
Harper Lee died
yesterday at age 89. The AFPLS catalogue has copies of Mockingbird (and Watchman) in various formats, as well as
bios/memoirs of the author.
