Writer’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird – which won a Pulitzer prize – was originally a response to the Montgomery bus boycott four years earlierIn one of her final interviews,given in 1964, Harper Lee, or who has died at the age of 89,explained: I would like to leave some record of the kind of life that existed in a very small world. I hope to finish this in several novels: to chronicle something that seems to be very quickly going down the drain. This is small-town middle-class southern life ... I believe that there is something universal in this small world, something decent to be said for it, or something to lament in its passing.” Related: Harper Lee – a life in pictures Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com