Mockingbird

Description

"An extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a Watchman. To Kill a Mockingbird--the twentieth century's most widely read American novel--has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. In this in-depth biography, first published in 2006, Charles J. Shields brings to life the woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters, Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout. Years after its initial publication--with revisions throughout the book and a new epilogue--Shields finishes the story of Harper Lee's life, up to its end. There's her former agent getting her to transfer the copyright for To Kill a Mockingbird to him, the death of Lee's dear sister Alice, a fuller portrait of Lee's editor, Tay Hohoff, and--most vitally--the release of Lee's long-buried first novel and the ensuing public devouring of what has truly become the book of the year, if not the decade: Lee's Go Set a Watchman."--

First Sentence

IT STARTED TO SNOW IN THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT DAWN ON March 3, 1960.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography

Other Editions

• Mockingbird: a portrait of Harper LeeHenry Holt2006-01-01
• MockingbirdHardcoverHenry Holt and Co.2006-05-30
• MockingbirdHardcoverThorndike Press2006-11-08
• MockingbirdHolt & Company, Henry2007-01-01
• MockingbirdPaperbackHolt Paperbacks2007-04-03
• MockingbirdHenry Holt and Company2016-01-01