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Subject: Harper Lee: US author of To Kill a Mockingbird dies aged 89
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/16 at 11:36 am
Harper Lee, the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.
The news was first confirmed by the mayor's office in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
The novelist was born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926.
In 1960, she published To Kill a Mockingbird, a huge critical and commercial success which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A sequel Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015.
To Kill a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35616011
Subject: Re: Harper Lee: US author of To Kill a Mockingbird dies aged 89
Written By: snozberries on 02/19/16 at 1:13 pm
Harper Lee, the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.
The news was first confirmed by the mayor's office in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
The novelist was born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926.
In 1960, she published To Kill a Mockingbird, a huge critical and commercial success which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A sequel Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015.
To Kill a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35616011
Okay so I thought that Go Set a Watchman was discovered in some papers years after Harper Lee had died.... :-[
Subject: Re: Harper Lee: US author of To Kill a Mockingbird dies aged 89
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/08/16 at 6:33 am
The will of To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is to remain private, according to court records that have just been released.
Monroe County Probate Judge Greg Norris signed the order for the will to be sealed from public view after a request from lawyers for Lee's personal representative Tonja Carter - with the writer's family agreeing to the request.
The lawyers wrote: "As the court is no doubt aware, Ms Lee highly valued her privacy.