Harper Lee emerges to accept award
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I was flabberghasted to find out that Harper Lee was still alive. The author of To Kill A Mockingbird, which was made into a movie starring Gregory Peck as the book's lawyer protagonist, Atticus, made a rare public appearance when she showed up at the Los Angeles Public Library to accept an award. She was invited by Peck's widow, Veronique. Shortly after publishing the book and winning a Pulitzer in 1960, Lee shunned the public spotlight and refused to grant interviews. To Kill A Mockingbird was her only book.
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8-22-2005 @ 6:12PM
GC in CA said...
I was flabbergasted to find out that this story is three months old. Was there some kind of embargo or moratorium or something?
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8-23-2005 @ 11:33PM
Alexei said...
I actually read about that when it happened and was about to ask how on earth you ran across news this old, or perhaps how on earth you decided to post about it, when this GC character beat me to it.
So, uh... was there really nothing else newsworthy today? Perhaps you shouldn't wait for your LA news to be filtered through the UK.
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8-23-2005 @ 9:01AM
chris said...
It will be interesting to see if the new film on Truman Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman will reignite that whole theory (quite believable, really, if you compare the styles) about him being the ghostwriter behind "Mockingbird."
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8-23-2005 @ 10:39AM
Film Cynic said...
Did you accidentally pick up the newspaper dated May 22?
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