Harper Lee dead at age of 89: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author passes away

[Confounding]

RIP

Harper Lee dead at age of 89: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author passes away

Nelle Harper Lee, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died at the age of 89, multiple sources in her hometown of Monroeville, including the mayor's office, confirmed Friday morning.

 

[Grandma]

She was a Great Lady. RIP.

 

[Unkotare]

RIP, but I could live without reading that book again.

 

[Blackrook]

I read the book in high school. My favorite part is when the deputy asks Atticus to shoot the rabid dog at long range. Scout and Jem assume their father is too much of a bookworm to know how to shoot at long range, but then he does it. It was a blow for bookworms everywhere.

 

[Unkotare]

I read the book in high school. My favorite part is when the deputy asks Atticus to shoot the rabid dog at long range. Scout and Jem assume their father is too much of a bookworm to know how to shoot at long range, but then he does it. It was a blow for bookworms everywhere.

So subtle.

 

[jc456]

RIP

 

[strollingbones]

a great writer....too few of those around now

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Damn, knew this would be coming soon. RIP.

 

[OldLady]

Boo's hidey hole in the tree. That was the part I've always remembered the most.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

 

[JakeStarkey]

Author whose 1961 novel became a defining text of 20th century literature and of racial troubles in the American south has died in Monroeville, Alabama.

________________ This book, along with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are my favorite novels. RIP, Harper.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author, dies aged 89

 

[baileyn45]

Truly a great novel, and movie. I'd swear that in the last couple of years she released another book can't remember if was a sequel or not.

 

[Auld Phart]

Truly a great novel, and movie. I'd swear that in the last couple of years she released another book can't remember if was a sequel or not.

'she published no other book until stunning the world in 2015 by permitting "Go Set a Watchman" to be released.

Written before Mockingbird, but takes place years after

 

[baileyn45]

Truly a great novel, and movie. I'd swear that in the last couple of years she released another book can't remember if was a sequel or not.

'she published no other book until stunning the world in 2015 by permitting "Go Set a Watchman" to be released.

Written before Mockingbird, but takes place years after

Thanks, I knew I had heard something.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Probably my favorite book

 

[Unkotare]

Probably my favorite book

Ugh. Down there with Catcher in the Rye as worst forced on high school kids.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Probably my favorite book

Ugh. Down there with Catcher in the Rye as worst forced on high school kids.

I loved To Kill A Mockingbird. I never had to read Catcher in the Rye.

 

[rightwinger]

Probably my favorite book

Ugh. Down there with Catcher in the Rye as worst forced on high school kids.

To Kill a Mockingbird was a good read
Catcher in the Rye was an acquired taste

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Truly a great novel, and movie. I'd swear that in the last couple of years she released another book can't remember if was a sequel or not.

'she published no other book until stunning the world in 2015 by permitting "Go Set a Watchman" to be released.

Written before Mockingbird, but takes place years after

Rumor haddit that Harper Lee's best friend, Truman Capote, ghost-wrote the book for her to give her a leg up in the industry, after he became a superstar in the 1950s. The character "Dill" in the book is supposedly Truman Capote when he was a boy and friend with Lee, who is "Scout".

I wonder if it's no small coincidence that she releases "Go Set a Watchman" less than a year before she dies? Because it's a very derogatory tale about her father, "Atticus Finch" and his true racist ways.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

A Finch is a bird just like a mockingbird...