One of my favorite authors of all-time, and her response to her book “To Kill A Mockingbird” being banned in Virginia. Class act all the way and it wouldn’t surprise me if the gist of the letter was lost on the receivers.
This is on of my favorite author letters responding to news the author’s book has been banned, penned by Harper Lee in 1966 when she heard To Kill a Mockingbird was pulled from school library shelves by the Hanover County School Board in Virginia. [Harper Lee so rocks.]
Monroeville, Alabama
January, 1966Editor, The News Leader:
Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board’s activities, and what I’ve heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read.
Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that “To Kill a Mockingbird” spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is “immoral” has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across…
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Harper Lee rocks mightily. And now that I’ve read that letter, even more than I thought, which was a lot already. Thanks for sharing this one.
You’re welcome, bud.
I’m so lucky to have gone to school when it was required reading.
Me too.
Oh, I don’t think there’s a single doubt that her shot across the board’s bow was definitely a “long”, in artillery speak. And for added fun, you have them stand in a line with their right sides to the winds, and see if the air shooting through their ears plays “Dixie” or “The Yellow Rose”. 😀
Scary #1: It wasn’t that long ago.
Scary #2: This shit still happens.