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Harper Lee Expanded on Her View of the South in Letters to a Friend

15 January 2026 at 00:00
In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.

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Harper Lee in a photograph taken by her friend Truman Capote. Taken in 1960, it was used on the dust jacket of the first edition of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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