Full Coverage: Harper Lee | 1926-2016

The author of the American classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” was laid to rest Saturday in a private ceremony attended by only the closest of friends and family, a reflection of how she had lived.

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” the classic 1960 novel about racism in a small Southern town, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, became a staple of high school reading lists and turned its author into one of American literature’s most revered figures.

Bestselling young-adult writer Margaret Stohl’s “Beautiful Creatures,” co-written with Kami Garcia, is about supernatural teens who read “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Although for decades she only had one published book to her name, Harper Lee influenced generations of readers worldwide who fell in love with her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

As news of the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee filters around the globe, so do Twitter reactions upon, not just her passing, but her life.

The publication of Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” this summer rocked the publishing world and dominated literary conversations around the globe.

“Go Set a Watchman,” the surprise second novel by Harper Lee, has proven to be a hit with readers.

Two years after Harper Lee’s 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published to critical acclaim and commercial success, the tale of righteous lawyer Atticus Finch and his precocious daughter Scout was adapted into an Oscar-winning film that further etched the story in the popular consciousness.

After five decades, readers are finally returning to Maycomb, the fictional Alabama town of Harper Lee’s beloved 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” only to find one of its most famous residents nearly unrecognizable.

On Tuesday morning, Harper Lee’s “Go Set A Watchman” goes on sale nationwide.

Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” won’t be released to the public until Tuesday, but readers already know that the book reveals a darker side to Atticus Finch.

Editor’s note: Author Harper Lee has died at the age of 89.

Let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: Why should the revelations in “Go Set a Watchman” -- most notably, its portrait of Atticus Finch as a segregationist -- change the way we think about Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”?

It would be a mistake to read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” as a sequel to her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Monroeville, Ala., rests approximately 100 miles equidistant from Mobile and Montgomery, not on the way to anywhere, but it has become a key stop on the literary map of America thanks to Harper Lee and her next-door neighbor and childhood best friend, Truman Capote.

It’s the biggest literary surprise of the 21st century: On July 13, 55 years after the publication of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the reclusive 89-year-old Harper Lee will publish her second book.

To reread “To Kill a Mockingbird” in advance of Tuesday’s release of Harper Lee’s much-anticipated follow-up, “Go Set a Watchman,” is not so much an exercise in nostalgia as in cognitive dissonance.

A collection of letters written by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee failed to sell at auction Friday at Christie’s in New York.

Reese Witherspoon will give voice to the adult Scout — and all the other characters — in Harper Lee’s new novel, “Go Set a Watchman.”

An “exceptionally rare” collection of letters written by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee to a friend will be auctioned in New York next week, Reuters reports, and could fetch up to $250,000.