Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served on the state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote.
After graduating from high school in Monroeville, Lee enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944-45), and then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945-50), pledging the Chi Omega sorority. While there, she wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor magazine, "Ramma-Jamma". Though she did not complete the law degree, she studied for a summer in Oxford, England, before moving to New York in 1950, where she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC.
Lee continued as a reservation clerk until the late 50s, when she devoted herself to writing. She lived a frugal life, traveling between her cold-water-only apartment in New York to her family home in Alabama to care for her father.
Having written several long stories, Harper Lee located an agent in November 1956. The following month at the East 50th townhouse of her friends Michael Brown and Joy Williams Brown, she received a gift of a year's wages with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas."
Within a year, she had a first draft. Working with J. B. Lippincott & Co. editor Tay Hohoff, she completed To Kill a Mockingbird in the summer of 1959. Published July 11, 1960, the novel was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the Library Journal.
An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.
Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.
發表於2024-05-02
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《殺死一隻知更鳥》的續集,仍然讓人動容與溫暖。斯庫特長大瞭,阿迪剋斯老瞭,傑姆去世瞭,迪爾不見瞭。這就是我們的世界,所有的成長都讓人猝不及防。 阿迪剋斯試圖用所有的力量,來教會斯庫特麵對世界的不同,不以武力與避讓,而是朋友歡聚一堂。是曾經奔忙在所有的對抗裏依...
評分初讀《守望之心》 5月8日 0:27 難得生次病,趁在傢養病之際規定自己務必讀完一本書,於是拿起前年就放在心裏的《殺死一隻知更鳥》的續集《守望之心》,《守》是《殺》的成長版,主角仍是瓊·露易絲和其父阿迪剋斯,還有上集裏沒有的亨利,傑剋叔叔和姑姑亞曆山德拉,這次的故事...
評分 評分讀完《殺死一隻知更鳥》,我緊接著找來《守望之心》,直到淩晨三點把整本讀完纔熄燈躺下(期間還見證瞭歐洲最後一次夏令時調整,所以多齣瞭一個小時),因為不看到斯庫特和父親對峙和攤牌實在放不下。BTW,突如其來的傑姆的死訊實在讓人心痛... 感覺第二本更讓我思考自己和父親...
評分圖書標籤: 英文原版 HarperLee 美國 Harper_Lee 小說 外國文學 哈珀·李 原版
哎和我的情況一樣,對父親的失望。
評分六十年代寫完to kill a mockingbird後一直擱筆 如今視聽力都受損後推齣這本 結尾很棒
評分so go set a watchman means find your own consciousness? Psychological patricide?
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評分齣版一周已售齣一百萬餘冊的書,並沒有某些書評標題吐槽的那麼糟,確有陳詞濫調,但這是一本50年前寫成的書,誠如紐約客書評裏中肯的提醒,部分陳詞濫調,正是因為有Harper Lee這一代作傢,所以經過50年而變成瞭陳詞濫調。從缺乏小說章法的敘事裏可以窺見一個復雜耐人尋味的故事的雛形,可惜沒有編輯,作者本人亦不可能再對書稿做任何工作,然後被不負責任的齣版社以這種輕率聳動的方式齣版,這是悲哀。
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