Harper Lee has died, but about her life and work is just the beginning.
"I think, than her lifetime retrospective saying more useful, because there are many things we can get down to thought to be impossible before," Lee's friend Wayne Flint, based in Alabama Historians tell Associated Press.
Almost exactly a year her publisher, Harper Collins, Lee's death Friday at the age of 89 coming, announced by the author's second novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" stunned to be released ended many considered to be permanent, much- desired literary silence.
Lee confined to a nursing home in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, only through the newsletter published many doubt that she even knew her mind and debate the second book, "Go, set a watchman." It took close without her. It may grow, because those close to her finally speak, but something about her leaving, if any, other writings.
Portrait of Harper: "From newsboy to the checkout girl to the local priest everyone will remember and love Harper Lee or ulterior motives, it depends on how they deal with," Lee biographer Charles Shields, he "only Robin said: Lee "was published in 2006, this year will be reissued.
Flint those who want a memoir.
Lee's retreat over the past half-century have created a sense of mystery from public life; the "Go, set a watchman," published last summer and the beginning of another. The millions who think they "know" Atticus Finch, who named their children for him to become a lawyer because his face looks like a different person in a new book, which takes place 20 years later, but in fact has been written before, Lee turned to what has become "To kill a Mockingbird."
Bold lawyer who defended a black man in the 1930s in "Mockingbird" was accused of raping Age malicious reactionary condemns the decision of the Supreme Court in 1954 outlawed racial segregation in public schools. Is "Mockingbird" a romantic character of Atticus and "Rye" Atticus closer to the truth? Is Atticus, closely based on Lee's father, the real change or is he just a nobleman more comfortable the old rules, when all power belongs to the white man?
Ralph Banks, Virginia Quarterly Review, currently at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, former editor of the Southern Research Visiting Professor said, "Mockingbird" brilliant is how to make the from the north or the south and identification of problems and people with the characters.
"For 'Go, set a watchman," Nobody cheer you, "he said," It's for me to change the dynamic. "
In an e-mail to the Associated Press correspondent, award-winning historian Isabel Wilkerson said that Lee has created two equally worthy legacy.
"Harper Lee left us a great gift: the" To Kill a Mockingbird "and under our better selves a beloved vision which her early manuscript lay a thorny reflection" go, set a watchman, ' "Wilkerson wrote, which dates back to the most famous black migration from the South in the 20th century" another warmth of the sun. "
"In both, she bravely gave us the version we ponder our country for generations."
James McBride, the winner of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction upcoming documentary "Good Lord Bird" and author of "Kill 'em and leave' James Brown said, reading" To Kill a Mockingbird "as a a child makes him want to be a writer, it "crystallized" his racist consciousness has been "floating around him." Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's book and others marked "white savior" fiction, but McBride believes that "Mockingbird" is Lee can tell the best story.
"Yes, I would like to see more black characters show dimensions," he said. "But, Harper Lee gave it all she had left her anything, but that's all you can ask."
McBride has been re-reading "Mockingbird" a few times, to capture significant new details, each read, and gives his children the book.
He has not seen "Go, set a watchman."
"I prefer to remember" To Kill a Mockingbird "and Atticus odd and all those characters as Harper Lee would like us to remember them. I believe that she is not at the end of her life, strong enough to make her work any sensible decision, "he said.
"There is no doubt in my mind, Harper Lee is a well-intentioned great American writer, you have to start talking about race from somewhere, Harper Lee is a great place to begin."
