I reminded Nelle of something she had said to me about “To Kill a Mockingbird” years before…“I wish I’d never written the damn thing.” On this day, over coffee, I (asked her) “Do you still feel that way?” She glanced away…Then she looked at me again. “Sometimes,” she said. “But then it passes.”
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How Harper Lee Made Me Who I Am Today
When I was 11 years old, my father gave me a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. “Read this,” he told me, “and then we’re going to talk about it”…There followed a memorable conversation with my father about the book.