Alabama historian Wayne Flynt holds a copy of his new book, 'Afternoons With Harper Lee,' about the late author of 'To Kill A Mockingbird,; at a book-signing in Homewood, Alabama on Sept 22. Flynt and his late wife were friends with Lee, who died in 2016. Photo: AP
Based on Flynt's notes from dozens of visits with Lee over a decade before her death in 2016, the book is like sitting on a porch and hearing tales of Lee's childhood and family in rural Alabama, her later life in New York and everything in between. That includes the time a grandfather who fought for the Confederacy survived the Battle of Gettysburg despite heavy losses to his Alabama unit, according to Flynt.
Preferring football, softball, golf and books to small-town social affairs or college sororities, Lee's well-known desire for privacy may have come in part from a feeling of being different from others growing up around her in the South, Flynt said.A childhood friend of fellow author Truman Capote, Lee was rarely heard from in public after her partly autobiographicalwon the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was made into a hit movie.
Lee was steeped in literature and religion, Flynt said. She preferred the King James Version of the Bible to all others for its lyrical language, he said, and her favourite authors included Jane Austen and C.S. Lewis.
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