Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

charles j. shields

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful portrait of this unconventional, high-spirited, and sometimes hardheaded woman who loved her Southern home and the craft of writing and who-from these undying affections--created a book whose power has never diminished.

Genres biographynonfictionbiography memoirbook clubhistorymemoirbooks about bookssouthernclassicsamerican

337 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2006

This edition

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
Published: May 30, 2006 by Henry Holt \u0026 Company, LLC
ISBN: 9780805079197
ASIN: 080507919X
Language: English

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Harper Lee

Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966)...

About the author

charles j. shields

Charles J. Shields is the author of And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life (Henry Holt & Co.), Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Holt), the highly acclaimed, bestselling biography of Harper Lee,I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers), and The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life (University of Texas Press).

In January 2022, Henry Holt will release Shields' new book, Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind 'A Raisin in the Sun,' the most comprehensive biography of, in James Baldwin's words, this “very young woman, with an overpowering vision.”