...and while I’m at it, why did she pay rent on that apartment in NYC for forty years that she never visited?
About 15 years ago, my husband (who ran a lecture series) invited Harper Lee to come and talk. Of course, she turned us down, but wrote a very nice note (that should be framed) which was written on her NY stationary and the envelope had a NY postmark. What I heard on my one visit to Monroeville was that she spent half the year in NY, the other half in AL, living with her sister.