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Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father--a crusading local lawyer--risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960, and Go Set a Watchman, published in July 2015. Ms. Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honors. She died on February 19, 2016.
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With her new wealth from “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee purchased a statue for her local church, Thomas Mallon writes. She described herself as “ugly as sin” and used an old wooden door for a writing desk. The novelist was born on this day in 1926. https://t.co/OSUWAhL0wc
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"That yard's a mighty long place for little girls to cross at night," Jem teased. "Ain't you scared of haints?" —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Ahem.
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee (To kill a mockingbird)
"A first novel of such rare excellence that it will no doubt make a great many readers slow down to relish more fully its simple distinction. . . . A novel of strong contemporary national significance." -- Chicago Tribune