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'Afternoons With Harper Lee' is based on Flynt's notes from dozens of visits with Lee over a decade before her death in 2016

A new book shows the personal side of the late “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee. Wayne Flynt's new book “Afternoons with Harper Lee” is based on stories that

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.

HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) -- To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life

To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one of the best-selling books ever, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”