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Harper Lee to publish sequel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Washington Post ^
| February 3, 2015
| By Ron Charles
Posted on 02/03/2015 1:05:31 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
She has eaten out on To Kill a Mockingbird for fifty years. Never published another book.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:09:51 PM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Jim from C-Town
Neither did Margaret Mitchell for Gone with the Wind. Some people only have one story in them.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:16:54 PM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: miss marmelstein
The thing that is amazing is that she still makes thousands of dollars a day in royalties for that one book. It was so well received that she has a net worth close to forty million dollars and only wrote the one published novel over fifty years ago.
Just kind of blows ones mind.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:20:27 PM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:25:53 PM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Jim from C-Town
If you write one of the best novels of the century, you wil also be a millionaire.
To: Jim from C-Town
It makes me rethink the jokes about “one hit wonders”!
To: Brad from Tennessee
Truman Capote wrote another novel? :)
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:26:59 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Jim from C-Town
She has eaten out on To Kill a Mockingbird for fifty years. Never published another book.
All that Summer Reading List money must be drying up. She needs another hit!
To: Jim from C-Town
I can only imagine what the estate of Margaret Mitchell rakes in. Both are wonderful books.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:29:18 PM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: AppyPappy
Are you implying Capote wrote it for his friend?
Interesting.
Is there any evidence of it?
I am not attacking you, I just find the idea plausible and I never thought of it before.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:30:09 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the fascists.)
To: 11th Commandment
It makes me rethink the jokes about one hit wonders!
She's the Dexy's Midnight Runners of the literary world.
To: miss marmelstein
"Neither did Margaret Mitchell for Gone with the Wind. Some people only have one story in them." Yup, J. D. Salinger had basically two books/stories One about Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye the other about The Glass Family "Franny and Zoey" "Raise High The Roofbeam Carpenters" (my favorite) "Seymour: An Introduction" etc. which weren't full blown novels but novellas and short stories which if you put them all together still wouldn't be as big as one of Stephen King's larger books.
The last Documentary I saw on him called Salinger Said there will be several books published in the near future and most of them are on either about Holden Caulfield, the Glass family or his experiences in WWII.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:35:04 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Oliviaforever
I’d better get to work on mine, then.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:37:51 PM PST
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
This time I hope her book reverses the myths created by the first one.
What would really be good is to help “progressives,” both in the south and the north, to have insight into their own raging bigotries.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:38:25 PM PST
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
That was the rumor because she never wrote another one.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:39:00 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: miss marmelstein
Neither did Margaret Mitchell for Gone with the Wind. Some people only have one story in them.She had other earlier works before GWTW.
She was also killed by a drunk driver, who only served 11 months in jail, in 1949 at age 48.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
No, she wrote it. This, for some reason, came about during her note-taking for him on In Cold Blood.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:44:36 PM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: Lizavetta
She was a reporter and wrote one really short novella prior to that. Not unlike this situation - it was published after her death after being found stashed away somewhere.
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:46:12 PM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
To: AppyPappy; E. Pluribus Unum
"That was the rumor because she never wrote another one." My guess is that it is more a case of him helping her extensively than him writing it for her. She helped him on several books doing research, and he acknowledged such over the years. Knowing the literary world at the time they probably agreed to not acknowledge that he had a hand in it because then it wouldn't have been "To Kill A Mockingbird" By Harper Lee and editorial help by Truman Capote it would have been Truman Capote's new book written with Harper Lee
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posted on
02/03/2015 1:46:37 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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