We’re talking unpaved streets here, and the Depression.īooks were scarce. A movie? Not often - movies weren’t for small children. Why this endemic precocity? Because in my hometown, a remote village in the early 1930s, youngsters had little to do but read. Reading was an accomplishment I shared with several local contemporaries. So I arrived in the first grade, literate, with a curious cultural assimilation of American history, romance, the Rover Boys, Rapunzel, and The Mobile Press. Then, of course, it was Uncle Wiggily at bedtime. My sisters and brother, much older, read aloud to keep me from pestering them my mother read me a story every day, usually a children’s classic, and my father read from the four newspapers he got through every evening. ”ĭo you remember when you learned to read, or like me, can you not even remember a time when you didn’t know how? I must have learned from having been read to by my family. “Some things should happen on soft pages,” notes Lee, “not cold metal.
Bookshelf presents a letter, dated May 7 2006, written by Harper Lee to Oprah Winfrey on the importance of reading and the love of books. There is no better tribute to the life of the Pulitzer-winning author and her enduring literary work than to celebrate the joy of reading. She lived her life the way she wanted to - in private - surrounded by books and the people who loved her.”
General Books, “but what many don’t know is that she was an extraordinary woman of great joyfulness, humility and kindness. “The world knows Harper Lee was a brilliant writer, wrote Michael Morrison, President of HarperCollins U.S. Harper Lee, the author of the beloved and bestselling novel To Kill A Mockingbird published in 1960, died peacefully at the age of 89 on February 18, 2016.
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