Judy Muller speaks with Charles Shields about his new biography of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Shields interviewed hundreds of Lee's acquaintances and researched the papers of her childhood friend Truman Capote. The reclusive Lee never published a second novel, and has not granted interviews since the mid-1960s. The book is full of anecdotes about Lee's childhood in rural Alabama, but fails to answer the key question of why Lee never wrote a follow-up to her brilliant and celebrated novel. Shields' book is called Mockingbird.
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