An unremarkable docu about Harper Lee and her single literary masterwork, “Hey, Boo” features what the French call a “structuring absence,” that of Lee herself. She has not granted an interview since ...

They’re rarely well-made, but documentaries targeted at a specific fanbase will always have their place. Whether the film is about a band or Monopoly or a genre of movies, or even a book, it can ...

One of the biggest American bestsellers of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) was thought to be the first and only novel by Harper Lee. However, on July 14, 2015, Go Set a Watchman was released, ...

Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama, describes how Harper Lee’s protagonist Scout Finch, the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird, was a radical voice of change in the segregated south of his ...

Harper Lee was working as an airline reservations agent in New York City, struggling to write a novel tentatively titled “Atticus,” when a close friend gave her enough money to take time off and ...