We take note now of two major literary passings this past week, both on Friday. Umberto Eco, author of the novel "The Name of the Rose," died in Milan at the age of 84. Closer to home, Harper Lee ...

In an article collected in the new book “The Land of Sweet Forever,” Lee recounts the present that allowed her to write “To Kill a Mockingbird.” ...

Harper Lee author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird photographed in her New York apartment, July 1960. Fans of legendary To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee have something to ...

The literary world lost a titan when Harper Lee died on Friday at the age of 89. The "To Kill a Mockingbird" author sold more than 40 million copies of the book, and her second book in 2015, "Go Set a ...

Harper Lee’s writing career was brief, but her single novel became one of the most famous in American history.

Few books have been as widely read as To Kill a Mockingbird, the 1960 novel written by Harper Lee that went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, and made Lee a ...

Harper Lee was 34 when she published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. The novel was an immediate hit, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, successfully filmed in 1962. The book has now sold some ...

Harper Lee, who just died at the age of 89, had an impossible career that rest of us would sell our souls for today: She put a single artistic creation into the world and, then, essentially retreated ...

Harper Lee was known as a recluse. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird — Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, classroom staple, the best courtroom drama of all time — was overwhelmed by the success of her ...

Bestselling young-adult writer Margaret Stohl’s “Beautiful Creatures,” co-written with Kami Garcia, is about supernatural teens who read “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Here she writes about the significance ...

Harper Lee: What a mess it’s all been. For starters there was the author’s publication of Go Set a Watchman, a piece of juvenilia that should never have been chivvied into the public’s consciousness, ...

In September of 2008, I was struggling with depression and decided to take a solo trip for my 36th birthday. What I needed was a couple of days to relax, recenter and get ready for the year ahead. I ...