Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and fans of American novelist, Harper Lee who passed away at the age of 89. On July 11, 1960, Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird was published and garnered critical and commercial success. Last year, a prequel to Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman was published after [….]
Harper Lee Settles Lawsuit
Published on :Critically acclaimed author Harper Lee has settled her lawsuit against the museum that sold unlicensed and unapproved merchandised that carried her name and the title of her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. According to USA Today, Lee’s suit against the Monroe County Heritage Museum in Alabama and a motion was filed by her attorney, “Tuesday [….]
Author Harper Lee, Hometown Museum At Odds
Published on :From the Huffington Post: MONTGOMERY, Ala. — “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee is at odds with a museum in her Alabama hometown that celebrates her literary achievement over use of the words in the title of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Lee is seeking a trademark for the words when they are used on [….]
Update: Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Lawsuit
Published on :Here’s an update on a post we told you about recently, courtesy of the LA Times’ Carolyn Kellogg: Who would have predicted that, in her late 80s, Harper Lee would have to file suit to get the control of “To Kill a Mockingbird” returned to her? According to a lawsuit filed in May, Lee, in failing [….]
Harper Lee Files Lawsuit Over Copyright of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’
Published on :From Huffington Post: NEW YORK — Harper Lee, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” filed a lawsuit Friday to re-secure the copyright to it. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan seeks unspecified damages from the son-in-law of Lee’s former literary agent and companies he allegedly created. The lawsuit alleges [….]
Wikipedia Fail: Website Bumps Women from ‘American Novelists’ Category
Published on :We’re going to call B.S. on this one. From The Guardian: There are American novelists, and then there are American women novelists – at least according to Wikipedia, where outrage has been building over the quiet categorisation of major names such as Harper Lee and Donna Tartt according to their gender. Wikipedia has a category [….]
LitStaff Pick: Our Favorite Unlikely Heroes
Published on :Joseph Campbell had a theory about heroes. In his classic seminal work, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Campbell discusses the journey of the archetypal hero found in world mythologies. The hero, according to Campbell follows the same path or, ‘heroic journey’ : A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a [….]
LitStaff Pick: Our Favorite Top Five Must Reads
Published on :It’s a difficult task, narrowing down the novels that have impacted your life into a small, somewhat abstract list. For many of us, reading a novel, a well written novel, is more than a task set to those merely interested in reading a good book. The novels in this week’s picks are stories so [….]