Why Harper Lee (To Kill a Mocking Bird) remained silent all these years
From the article:
Lee has succeeded in protecting herself over the last half-century, and living a life which is of her choosing. In a rare statement recently, a letter to Oprah Winfrey’s magazine, she suggested how out-of-touch with modern life she has become: “In an abundant society where people have laptops, cellphones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.” That detachment is, clearly, necessary to her. It is the paradox of the novel that it could not have been written by someone in love with literary fame; that the fame it achieved and deserved killed off any prospect of a succeeding masterpiece.
I can't wait to hear directly from Ms. Lee. Her one novel is one of my favorites along with the movie (starring Gregory Peck) by the same name.


