We stand corrected

In talking about websites we love most, WWP recently remarked on the career and life of author Harper Lee, whose single novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," has attained and still maintains a place of nearly unrivaled respect in American literature. We commented that the reclusive Ms. Lee hasn't granted interviews since 1963, and it turns out that is not entirely correct. [And we got her age wrong: She's 79, not 80.] It seems that the spritely essayist, who still eschews interviews, has not completely shunned media coverage, at least not for the past four or five years or so, after lending her name to a writing contest involving [who else?] young people.

Today's New York Times sets everything straight, with a lively portrait of the still spritely, ever enigmatic novelist.

Comments

[The One True b!X]

A longtime family friend once told me a story the bulk and details of which escape me. But the gist was that it was during his youthful days of counterculture, and wherever he was, he (and maybe a couple others) were outside some corporate sort of building, mainly looking like dirty countercultural youth.

This woman came out of the businesslike building, started talking with them, and eventually just sat down on the curb with them for awhile. I think they might have shared lunch.

Turned out it was, in fact, Harper Lee.

No particular moral here, but the story continues to live in the corner of my brain somewhere.

[Worldwide Pablo]

There seems to be a plethora of such stories, lately, unbidden until current times, waiting to be told. WWP is fascinated by Ms. Lee [and perhaps it shows too much]. b!x: Thanks for sharing the more-than-interesting tidbit. It is kindly noted. [Anyone else?]