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To Kill a Mockingbird
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.
January 4, 2016
Sarah Weinman
Making a Murderer’s Lawyer Hero
Dean Strang wrote a book about a 1917 miscarriage of justice in Milwaukee. The parallels with Steven Avery's case are striking.
July 16, 2015
Sarah Galo
An Evening with the Real Scout Finch
Mary Badham, who played Scout Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill A Mockingbird," reads from Harper Lee's newest novel
July 15, 2015
William Giraldi
Just How Good Is 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
The novel's slogan-ready ethics have crowded out literary appreciation
April 28, 2014
Deborah Friedell
Why Do Great Writers Stop Writing?
The tragic epilogue of Harper Lee
April 26, 1993
Michael Lewis
Washington Diarist: Toy Goy

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