21. Emma Foy, interview with author, 5 July 2003.
22. Annie Laurie Williams to Nelle and Alice Lee, 28 January 1961, Williams papers, box 86.
23. “Mockingbird Film May Begin in Fall,” Birmingham News, 2 May 1961.
24. “Spreading Poison” (letter to the editor), Atlanta Journal, 7 February 1961.
25. Annie Laurie Williams to George Stevens with note attached from Harper Lee, 8 August 1960, Williams papers, box 86.
26. Maurice Crain to Alice Lee, 22 March 1961, Williams papers, box 86.
27. Murray Schumach, “Prize for Novel Elates Film Pair,” New York Times, 19 May 1961, 26.
28. “State Pulitzer Prize Winner Too Busy to Write,” Dothan Eagle, 2 May 1961.
29. “‘Luckiest Person in the World.’”
30. “Mocking Bird Call,” 83.
31. Truman Capote, letter to Alvin and Marie Dewey, 22 May 1961, in Clarke, Too Brief a Treat, 317.
32. Nelle Lee to Helen McGowin, 20 November 1961, Caldwell Delaney papers, University of South Alabama Archives.
33. Note to Harper Lee, 12 July 1961, Williams papers, box 86.
34. “‘Luckiest Person in the World.’”
Chapter 8: “Oh, Mr. Peck!”
1. Reed Polk, letter to author, 10 July 2003.
2. Scott McGee, Kerryn Sherrod, and Jeff Stafford, “To Kill a Mockingbird: The Essentials,” Turner Classic Movies, www.turnerclassicmovies.com.
3. Joseph Deitch, “Harper Lee: Novelist of the South,” Christian Science Monitor, 3 October 1961, 6.
4. Charles S. Watson, Horton Foote: A Literary Biography (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003), 114. Nelle didn’t quite feel “indifference,” as she claimed. In a letter to Helen McGowin, a friend in Mobile, dated November 20, 1961, Nelle wrote: “Please forgive the long silence from Monroeville. I had to do some things that HAD to be done as soon as I returned—the most pressing task was doctoring the movie script” (Caldwell Delaney papers, University of South Alabama).
5. Don Noble, Bookmark: Interview with Horton Foote, videocassette, Alabama Center for Public Television, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 27 August 1998.
6. To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now, videocassette, Prince William County Public Schools, Manassas, Va., 25 April 1997.
7. M. Jerry Weiss, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Photoplay Guide, NCTE Studies in the Mass Media (Champaign, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, March 1963), 18.
8. To Kill a Mockingbird, Commentary section, Universal City, Calif.: Universal Home Video, 1998, compact disc.
9. Williams to George Stevens, 23 May 1961, Annie Laurie Williams papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, box 86.
10. Gary Fishgall, Gregory Peck: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 2002), 233.
11. George Thomas Jones, “Stand Up, Monroeville, Gregory Peck Is Passin’.” Happenings in Old Monroeville, vol. 2 (Monroeville, Ala.: Bolton Newspapers, 2003), 159–60.
12. Ibid., 160–61.
13. Dolores Hope, letter to author, 15 October 2002.
14. Thomas McDonald, “Bird in Hand,” New York Times, 6 May 1962, 149.
15. Kansas, “To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee: Why the Site?”
16. “Brock Peters, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Actor, Dies at 78,” USA Today, 23 August 2005.
17. To Kill a Mockingbird, Commentary section, compact disc.
18. Barbara Vancheri, “Author Lauded ‘Mockingbird’ as a ‘Moving’ Film,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 20 February 2003.
19. Philip Alford, interview with author, 21 May 2004.
20. Murray Schumach, “Film Crew Saves $75,000 on Shacks,” New York Times, 19 January 1962, 26.
21. Newquist, Counterpoint, 406.
22. Kansas, “To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee: Why the Site?”
23. Alford, interview with author, 21 May 2004.
24. Ibid.
25. Vernon Hendrix, “Firm Gives Books to Monroe County,” Montgomery Advertiser, 23 December 1962.
26. A. C. Lee, “This Is My Father’s World,” Bounds Law Library, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
27. A. B. Blass, “Mockingbird Tales,” Legacy (magazine of the Monroe County Heritage Museums), Fall/Winter 1999, 22.
28. Ramona Allison, “‘Mockingbird’ Author Is Alabama’s ‘Woman of the Year,’” Birmingham Post Herald, 3 January 1962.
29. Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 30.
30. Reverend Thomas L. Butts, Remarks at “Maud McLure Kelly Award Luncheon,” (award given to Miss Alice Lee, Mobile, Ala., 18 July 2003).
31. E.L.H., Jr., “The Obvious Is All Around Us” (editorial), Birmingham News, 22 April 1962.
32. Truman Capote, letter to Alvin and Marie Dewey, 5 May 1962, in Clarke, Too Brief a Treat, 348.
33. Fishgall, Gregory Peck, 236.
34. Ibid.
35. To Kill a Mockingbird, Commentary section, compact disc.
36. Truman Capote, letter to Alvin and Marie Dewey, 16 August 1962, in Clarke, Too Brief a Treat, 361.
37. Truman Capote, letter to Donald Cullivan, 11 December 1962, in Clarke, Too Brief a Treat, 372.
38. “Author Praises Picture Made from Prize Novel,” New York Times, Williams papers (a clipping in Harper Lee’s file).
39. To Kill a Mockingbird, Commentary section, compact disc.
40. Newsweek, 18 February 1963, 93.
41. Bosley Crowther, “Screen: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’” New York Times, 15 February 1963, 10.
42. Colin Nicholson, “Hollywood and Race: To Kill a Mockingbird,” in Cinema and Fiction: New Modes of Adapting, 1950–1990, eds. John Orr and Colin Nicholson (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), 97.
43. M. Jerry Weiss, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Photoplay Guide, 18.
44. Dorothy and Taylor Faircloth, interview with author, 17 March 2003.
45. Joseph Blass, letter to author, 10 September 2002.
46. Dorothy and Taylor Faircloth, interview with author, 17 March 2003.
47. S. Jonathan Bass, Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001), 102–103.
48. Vernon Hendrix, “Harper Lee Cries for Joy at Peck’s Winning of Oscar,” Montgomery Advertiser, 10 April 1963.
49. Moates, A Bridge of Childhood, 11.
Chapter 9: The Second Novel
1. Amelia Young, “Her Writing Place Is Secret: ‘Mockingbird’ Author Working on Second Book,” Minneapolis Star(?), 26 May 1963, Williams papers, box 86. (The clipping is barely identifiable.)
2. Wes Lawrence, “Author’s Problem: Friends,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 17 March 1964.
3. James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988).
4. Hal Boyle, “Harper Lee Running Scared, Getting Fat on Heels of Success,” Birmingham News, 15 March 1963.
5. Joseph Deitch, “Harper Lee: Novelist of the South,” Christian Science Monitor, 3 October 1961, 6.
6. Alice Lee to Annie Laurie Williams, 14 November 1963, Williams papers, box 86.
7. Young, “Her Writing Place Is Secret.”
8. Ibid.
9. Truman Capote, letter to Bennett Cerf, 10 September 1962, in Clarke, Too Brief a Treat, 363.
10. Harold Nye to Capote, 27 June 1962, Capote papers, New York Public Library, box 7, folder 9.
11. Harold Nye, interview with author, 30 December 2002.
12. Newquist, Counterpoint, 407–12.
13. Ibid.
14. Truman Capote, letter to Perry Smith, 24 January 1965, in Clarke, Too Brief a Treat, 412.
15. Brig. Gen. Jack Capp (Ret.), letter to author, 1 July 2006.
16. Ibid.
17. Gus Lee, Honor and Duty (reprint, New York: Ivy Books, 1994), 149–50.
18. Ibid.
19. Clarke, Capote: A Biography, 354.
20. Don Lee Keith, “An Afternoon with Harper Lee,” Delta Review (Spring
1966).
21. Williams to Alice Lee, 5 August 1965, Williams papers, box 86.
22. Lee, “When Children Discover America,” 76–79.
23. Wayne Lee, “Emotions Mixed Among Clutter Participants,” Hutchinson News, 31 October 1965.
24. Williams to Alice Lee, 28 September 1965, Williams papers, box 86.
25. Sarah Countryman, interview with author, 9 March 2004.
26. Williams to Alice Lee, 8 October 1965, Williams papers, box 86.
27. Wayne Greenhaw, letter to author, 1 November 2005.
28. R. Philip Hanes, interview with author, 6 December 2004.
29. Michael Shelden, “The Writer Vanishes: The 36-Year Silence of Harper Lee,” Daily Telegraph, 12 April 1997.
30. David Kipen, letter to author, 23 November 2005. Mr. Kipen is the National Endowment for the Arts literature director.
31. Wayne Greenhaw, interview with author, 20 March 2004.
32. Peter Griffiths, letter to the author, 26 April 2005. Mr. Griffiths was a researcher for the BBC in 1982, which visited Monroeville for a documentary about To Kill a Mockingbird.
Chapter 10: Quiet Time
1. Tom Radney, interview with author, 14 November 2005.
2. Jubera, “To Find a Mockingbird.”
3. Tom Radney, interview with author, 14 November 2005.
4. Ralph Hammond, interview with author, 20 March 2005.
5. Burstein, “Tiny, Yes, but a Terror?”
6. James Wolcott, “Tru Grit,” Vanity Fair, October 2005, 166.
7. Tom Radney, interview with author, 14 November 2005.
8. Ibid.
9. Drew Jubera, “‘Mockingbird’ Still Sings Despite Silence of Author Harper Lee,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 26 August 1990, M1 and M3.
10. William Smart, interview with author, 2 July 2004.
11. Clarke, Capote: A Biography, 22.
12. Harper Lee to Caldwell Delaney, 30 December 1988. Robert Hicks, author of Widow of the South (New York: Warner Books, 2005), came upon this letter in a used copy of Clarke’s Capote: A Biography.
13. Monroeville: The Search for Harper Lee’s Maycomb, 86.
14. Christopher Sergel to Annie Laurie Williams, 5 January 1965, Williams papers, box 149, folder L.
15. “Harper Lee, Read but Not Heard,” Washington Post, 17 August 1990.
16. Roy Hoffman, “Long Lives the Mockingbird,” New York Times, 9 August 1998.
17. Kathy McCoy, letter to author, 11 August 2004.
18. Dr. Wanda Bigham, former president of Huntingdon College, letter to author, 25 May 2004.
19. George Thomas Jones, letter to author, 30 August 2003.
20. Mills, “A Life Apart.”
21. Ibid.
22. J. Wes Yoder, “Debating the Details: Some Residents of Monroeville Prefer to Ponder the Fine Points of Famous Novel,” Expressions (online magazine), Auburn University Journalism Department, 2001.
23. Mills, “A Life Apart.”
24. Kathy Kemp, “Mockingbird Won’t Sing,” News & Observer, 12 November 1997, E1.
25. Mary Tomlinson, letter to author, 2 November 2005.
26. Carla Jean Whitley, “Small-Town Q&A: Amanda McMillan.” Crimson White, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, 9 October 2003.
27. Don Collins, interview with author, 1 April 2004.
28. Alice Lee, “92nd Birthday Newsletter,” 22 September 2003.
29. Mills, “A Life Apart.”
30. Carolyn Crawford, interview with author, 1 February 2003.
31. “One Version of the Harper Lee Story,” Harper Lee listserv at www.yahoogroups.com, 11 October 2005.
32. Nelle Lee to Helen McGowin, 20 November 1961, Caldwell Delaney papers, University of South Alabama Archives.
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