Mockingbird; A Portrait of Harper Lee, from Scout to Go Set a Watchman

Shields, Charles J.

ISBN 10: 1250115833 / ISBN 13: 9781250115836

Published by Henry Holt & Co, New York, 2016

About this Item

326pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, gilt on spine. Signed to title page by author. Full number line. Originally published by Henry Holt & Co. in hardcover in 2006, and in paperback by St. Martin's Griffin in 2007. This is the Revised and Updated version. Book is unread, tight, clean, unmarked, unclipped, and Brodart protected. Book has 12 chapters, an Epilogue, Notes, Bibliography, Ackownledments, and an Index. Spine heel has been bumped and the dust jacket is crinkled in that area. Spine head very slightly bumped, otherwise Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mockingbird; A Portrait of Harper Lee, from Scout to Go Set a Watchman
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250115833
• ISBN 13: 9781250115836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition thus.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography

About this title

Synopsis

An extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a Watchman

To Kill a Mockingbird―the twentieth century's most widely read American novel―has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. In this in-depth biography, first published in 2006, Charles J. Shields brings to life the woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters, Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout.

Years after its initial publication―with revisions throughout the book and a new epilogue―Shields finishes the story of Harper Lee's life, up to its end. There's her former agent getting her to transfer the copyright for To Kill a Mockingbird to him, the death of Lee's dear sister Alice, a fuller portrait of Lee’s editor, Tay Hohoff, and―most vitally―the release of Lee's long-buried first novel and the ensuing public devouring of what has truly become the book of the year, if not the decade: Lee's Go Set a Watchman.

About the Author

Charles J. Shields is the author of Harper Lee’s New York Times bestselling biography Mockingbird, the Kurt Vonnegut biography And So It Goes, and the biography of John Edward Williams, The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. Shields has spoken to hundreds of large audiences in schools, libraries, museums, and historic theaters and appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Huffington Post, and New York Times.