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Harper Lee
March 28, 2016
Alex Shephard
Harper Lee really, really hated Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino.
March 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
HarperCollins will offer To Kill a Mockingbird to schools at a discounted price.
March 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Mass-Market Edition of To Kill a Mockingbird Is Dead
Harper Lee’s estate will no longer allow publication of the inexpensive paperback edition that was popular with schools.
February 19, 2016
Sarah Weinman
How Harper Lee Lost Her Voice
Her last years were mired in scandal, and more struggles over her unpublished works may lie ahead.
February 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is dead at 89.
November 25, 2015
Alex Shephard
You can buy a signed, gilded, velvet-lined edition of Go Set A Watchman for $1,500, if you're into that kind of thing.
August 5, 2015
William Giraldi
Mockingbird, Inc.
Harper Lee’s juvenilia sprouts a literary industry
July 16, 2015
William Giraldi
Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' Should Not Have Been Published
July 15, 2015
William Giraldi
Just How Good Is 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
The novel's slogan-ready ethics have crowded out literary appreciation
February 4, 2015
Corley Miller
Will Harper Lee's New Book Be Any Good?
April 28, 2014
Deborah Friedell
Why Do Great Writers Stop Writing?
The tragic epilogue of Harper Lee

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