HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) – To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one of the most bestsellers, “To Kill a Mockingbird. For Wayne Flynt, the Alabama-born author was his friend, Nelle.
Flynt, a longtime Southern historian who befriended Nelle Harper Lee late in her life, wrote her second book about the author, ‘Afternoons with Harper Lee,’ which was released with Flynt on Thursday. signing copies at a bookshop in suburban Birmingham.
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