[Brown Deer]

Harper Lee is being awarded America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her outstanding contribution to literature. Her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and is ranked by the Guinness Book of World Records as the top selling novel of all time. The novel has sold more than 30 million copies.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/14666-harper-lee-wins-presidential-medal-of-freedom.html

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Harper Lee, et al, released, ‘Come Set A Watchman’ a number of years ago. Also good - but not a Classic. ;)

[marktwain]

It was changed with extensive editing, from a relatively common, mildly racist novel, into the highly successful propaganda novel against the South.

It promoted the leftist stereotypes at the time.

Now it is deemed too "racist".

No consistency on the left.

No principles.

Whatever will gain us power in the moment.