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A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper
June 2010
On Sale: June 8, 2010
240 pages ISBN: 0061924075 EAN: 9780061924071 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird may well be our national novel. It is
the first adult novel that many of us remember reading, one
book that millions of us have in common. It sells nearly a
million copies a year, more than any other twentieth-century
American classic. Harper Lee's first and only novel,
published in July 1960, is a beloved classic and touchstone
in American literary and social history. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird,
Mary McDonagh Murphy reviews its history and examines how
the novel has left its mark on a broad range of novelists,
historians, journalists, and artists. In compelling interviews, Anna Quindlen, Tom Brokaw, Oprah
Winfrey, James Patterson, James McBride, Scott Turow, Wally
Lamb, Andrew Young, Richard Russo, Adriana Trigiani, Rick
Bragg, Jon Meacham, Allan Gurganus, Diane McWhorter, Lee
Smith, Rosanne Cash, and others reflect on when they first
read the novel, what it means to them—then and now—and how
it has affected their lives and careers. Scout, Atticus, and
Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
is a lively appreciation of the many ways in which the novel
has made—and continues to make—a difference to generations
of readers. Harper Lee has not given an interview since 1964, but
Murphy's reporting, research, and rare interviews with the
author's sister and friends stitch together a brief history
of how the novel, as well as the acclaimed 1962 movie, came
to be.
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