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“Because I taught To Kill a Mockingbird to freshmen for three decades, I was always on the look out for information about the book's author, but discovering information about Harper Lee is like panning for gold - it takes lots of work before you find even a few new nuggets. I wouldn't call this unauthorized biography of the reclusive Miss Lee gold, but I was interested in the bits he found that were new to me, about her family life, her personality in college, and the possible reasons she never published another novel after TKAM. The writing is only average, on a par with many magazine articles, and because Lee did not cooperate with Shields on the content, some of it seems to be speculative, a conclusion bolstered by some factual errors I caught. Still, I never gave up on Mockingbird, and wish I had some of this information while I was still teaching.”
sthurner wrote this review Sunday, August 23 2009.
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