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ENGLISH - 8th Grade (To Kill A Mockingbird): Harper Lee

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Radio Interview

Harper Lee's Only Recorded Interview About 'To Kill A Mockingbird' [AUDIO]

n 1964, Harper Lee talked with WQXR host Roy Newquist for an interview in New York. The interview is the only known recording of Lee discussing "To Kill a Mockingbird," among other topics, and one of the last interviews she would ever give.

Benedict Library DataBase Resources

Harper Lee

Newsmakers, vol. 2, Gale, 2017.

Harper Lee: a timeline; What were the events that shaped the great writer, and what did she do after To Kill A Mockingbird?

Telegraph Online, 3 Feb. 2015.

Harper Lee

Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 20, Gale, 2000.

Harper Lee

Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2016

Harper Lee

Encyclopædia Britannica, 5 May. 2020.

When Harper Lee visited the Mockingbird movie

Hollywood Reporter, vol. 422, no. 8, 4 Mar. 2016

Images

HARPER LEE, American writer. Photograph, c1959.

Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Aug 2017.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1793533/1/140_1793533/cite. Accessed 2 Feb 2021.

American novelist Harper Lee (b.1926) holds a tire swing with child actress Mary Badham (b.1952), who played the role modeled on Lee's childhood in the movie 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

"Harper Lee and child actress Mary Badham." Gale Biography Online Collection, Gale, 2015. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/ICLUMG197004673/BIC?u=vero31952&sid=BIC&xid=0546aaf9. Accessed 2 Feb. 2021.

Harper Lee, 2001

Harper Lee. Image. Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 5 Jan. 2021. school.eb.com/levels/middle/assembly/view/246148. Accessed 2 Feb. 2021.

President George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harper Lee on November 5, 2007.

"Harper Lee Medal of Freedom." UPI Photo Collection, 2010. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC4295800446/BIC?u=vero31952&sid=BIC&xid=c88197a7. Accessed 2 Feb. 2021.