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The Mockingbird Next Door, by Marja Mills: Review
For some readers the fictional town of Maycomb in southern Alabama is more real than their own neighbourhood. Maycomb, of course, is the setting of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird — the story...
View ArticleHarper Lee to release second novel, a sequel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ on...
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ will not be Harper Lee’s only published book after all. Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the...
View ArticleIn honour of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, here are 10 other noteworthy...
Harper Lee published her acclaimed–and often times controversial– novel To Kill A Mockingbird in 1960, but it isn’t until this year that its sequel Go Set a Watchman will be released. In the wake of...
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Harper Lee’s second novel already breaking sales records
The sequel to Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird, has now become the most pre-ordered book in HarperCollins’ history. The CEO of HarperCollins, Robert Thomson has...
View ArticleHarper Lee manuscript may have been found years earlier than initially claimed
New details have emerged in the announcement that took the literary world by surprise. According to new reports, the manuscript to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird follow up might have been found...
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Remnants of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ abound in south Alabama hometown of...
MONROEVILLE, Ala. — Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is always nearby in the southwest Alabama town of Monroeville. The quiet city is the birthplace and current home of the 89-year-old...
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Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch enabled white Americans to talk amongst themselves
In 2005, Jennifer Reynolds answered her home phone to find Harper Lee on the line. “Thank heavens I was leaning on the kitchen counter at the time,” Reynolds later wrote. Tasked with finding a novel...
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Philip Marchand: Along with Scout and Atticus Finch, the middlebrow returns
The unease surrounding the publication of Harper Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman, is not entirely due to fears that the work will be a let-down. There is that, of course; nobody is sure that...
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Barbara Kay: Atticus Finch would have had his pick of men falsely accused of...
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, much in the news with the release of Lee’s practice-run novel for Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, is America’s favourite book, its extraordinary...
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Cashing a big cheque in a small town
Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee HarperCollins 278 pp; $35 If it were possible to review the new Harper Lee novel, Go Set A Watchman, based entirely on the text itself, here’s what I would tell you: Harper...
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Atticus Finch was no simple hero, it’s Gregory Peck who made him look like one
Point of view has a strong claim on being To Kill a Mockingbird’s most distinctive feature. Indeed, it proves the source of the novel’s central tension: the innocence of its narrator and hero, Scout,...
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What the teens have to say about Harper Lee
If you attended high school in North America, chances are at some point before graduating, you read Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning book To Kill a Mockingbird. Since its publication in 1960, it has...
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The management of Harper Lee’s estate is rife with controversy
Chloe Cushman/National Post 1970s (exact date unknown): Eugene Winick, an agent at New York City literary agency McIntosh & Otis, is hired as Harper Lee’s agent 1984: Winick becomes agent and...
View ArticleHarper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’ breaks sales records in its first week
Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman has sold over 1.1 million digital and physical copies in North America in less than one week, HarperCollins announced on Monday. The novel is now the fastest selling...
View ArticleNo third novel found hidden in Harper Lee’s safe deposit box, as many hoped
Although Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman rocked the literary world and sparked many a think piece everywhere, don’t expect a follow-up. James S. Jaffe, a rare books expert, examined the contents of a...
View ArticleThe Girl on the Train is Amazon’s best-selling book of 2015
The end of the year brings every best-selling list you can possibly imagine with it, with Amazon having announced its top books of 2015 to kick off December. Get your checklist ready. While Harper...
View ArticleHarper Lee proved it’s never safe to name your kids for literary characters
It’s December, which means two things. You’re going to hear a lot of Bruce Springsteen singing “Merry Christmas Baby,” and you’re going to see a lot of reflections on the significance of the year...
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Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird, dead at 89
Mike Faille/National PostLee, who suffered a serious stroke in 2007, was rarely seen in public. Nelle Harper Lee, the iconic American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for her book,...
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Harper Lee’s message won’t lose its poignancy any time soon
Mike Faille/National PostLee, who suffered a serious stroke in 2007, was rarely seen in public. It’s the fate of most writers who are lucky enough to live on past their death that their legacy will be...
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