Harper Lee, author of the classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," died peacefully Thursday night at the age of 89, according to her publisher. "We are deeply saddened by the passing of our beloved ...

To Kill a Mockingbird was the first novel Harper Lee had published, but it wasn't the first one she wrote. That first effort, titled Go Set a Watchman, was submitted to a publisher in 1957. When the ...

Aaron Sorkin takes Harper Lee’s classic book to create a play that presents a far more morally complex version of American ...

Explore Harper Lee's newly discovered short stories and essays in The Land of Sweet Forever (2025). This posthumous collection shows her early writing, themes of social approval, segregation, and ...

For years before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee wrote short stories with themes that she would later explore in that now-classic novel: small town gossip and politics, tender and ...

Molly Lee is talking to me about the tales her aunt Nelle, known to the world as Harper Lee, would weave for her when she was a little girl. "She was just a great storyteller," says the 77-year-old ...

Molly Lee is talking to me about the tales her aunt Nelle, known to the world as Harper Lee, would weave for her when she was a little girl. "She was just a great storyteller," says the 77-year-old ...

While still maintaining its historical setting, Aaron Sorkin’s script feels urgently engaged with the contemporary United States ...

Nelle Harper Lee and Hastings-on-Hudson literary agent Samuel Pinkus have reached an "agreement in principle" to settle a copyright lawsuit the famed author of To Kill a Mockingbird brought against ...

WASHINGTON — More stories from "To Kill A Mockingbird" author Harper Lee will be posthumously released. For a long time the literary world thought "To Kill a Mockingbird," which was later turned into ...

MONROEVILLE, Ala. -- Before Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" made the fictional lawyer Atticus Finch one of the best-known names in modern American literature, the man who inspired the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, "To Kill a Mockingbird," became standard reading for millions of young people and ...