Famously, Flannery O’Connor called Lee’s novel “a child’s book” and remarked: “it’s interesting that all the folks that are buying it don’t know they’re reading a child’s book. Michener, Henry Miller and John le Carré ruled the day. “Mockingbird” was a young girl’s coming-of-age story written by an unknown woman set loose in a world of best-selling man’s fiction in the early 1960s: J.D. “To Kill a Mockingbird” was released in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. To put it another way, what she wanted with all her being, was to write - not merely to be a writer.” as I grew to know her better I came to believe that the cause lay in an innate humility and a deep respect for the writing. Charles Shields notes in his book “Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee” that Lee’s lead editor, Theresa von Hohoff, made a commitment to nurture Lee’s abilities: “. The editors at Lippincott, who had not had a bestseller in years, sent Lee back to her writing desk.
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