Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I loved both these essays, and found Mark Childress' take on Harper Lee to be honest, respectful, and amusing, as he always is. Yes, it's a short book, but it's reasonably priced and offers insight to Miss Lee from a perspective few others have. He is a valuable writer, and particularly welcome among those from Alabama who have chosen to write as well.
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This brief book gives, in beautiful language Childress is himself a novelist , the best insight into Harper Lee as writer and person. Very brief; very much worthwhile.
One person found this helpful. Not much substance here, actually. I expected a whole book of essays, but there were only two and they were short.
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There are other more stimulating accounts of Harper Lee and more fulfilling. I have read them and am continuing to do so. The writing quality was fine, however. I do not mean, in any way, to malign Mark Childress as a writer.
I hope to get around to reading some of his more substantial work. The reader is given insight into the world of Harper to the degree that anyone can have an idea of her world. I was pleased that she finally wrote to the author and that she acknowledged that she enjoyed his first novel. I am so happy that I read this observation of her life before I read her new and only second book when it is released. Is there anything noted American author Mark Childress writes that I don't love?
He was born in the same town as Ms. Lee and his writing has often been compared to hers.
What Harper Lee taught me about writing and the writing life
He does not disappoint. Looking for smart storytelling? Read Mark Childress's works-there's plenty to choose from. Highly recommend this seller. I grew up very close to where John Steinbeck grew up; I never got to meet him but he has inspired me much like Harper Lee has inspired you. This essay inspires me to want to tell the stories of my childhood. A sweet tribute to a huge force.
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In the author got the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to her for an important contribution to literature, as well as received several honoris causa degrees throughout her life. In addition to these works, she also helped Truman Capote, an old friend of hers, to do the research for his book In Cold Blood , as well as wrote and published a number of articles and essays.
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Nelle was the youngest of four children. Once her father defended in court two black men accused of killing a white storekeeper; however, his efforts went in vain, and the defendants were found guilty and executed. Similar events, as well as many other autobiographical details, were later included into the novel. During that period, she got interested in English literature. Upon graduation in , she studied in Huntingdon College in Montgomery during one year, and later entered the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. There Lee studied law for a few years and wrote articles for a local magazine.
However, she left the University without obtaining a degree. In , she was a student at a summer school at Oxford University. Her father hoped that she would continue her legal studies, but in she moved to New York, where she started working as an airline reservation agent for Eastern Air Lines and BOAC.