Harper
Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To
Kill a Mockingbird is a book I associate with summer. Maybe you do, too.
If you’re a
fan of the book (or movie) and haven’t seen Harper
Lee: Hey, Boo – about the phenomenon behind the novel and its reclusive
author – check it out. The documentary explores the story behind the story, and
the interviews with Lee’s sister (still a practicing lawyer in her 90s) are
priceless.
And, as long as we're here, another
Southern Pulitzer Prize-winner who told the story she wanted to tell and then stepped
out of the spotlight: playwright Margaret Edson.
Watertown Public Library has chosen it as their "One Book One Watertown" summer read with lots of programming surrounding the themes and history of the book to happen in September/October. I just picked up my copy yesterday!
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