Harper Lee (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

In addition to the novel that made her famous, Lee wrote for magazines, including Vogue and McCall’s.

Achievements

Based entirely on her first and only novel, Lee’s success has been phenomenal. According to a survey of reading habits conducted in 1991 by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book, researchers found that To Kill a Mockingbird was “most often cited as making a difference in people’s lives, second only to the Bible.” In 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird won a...

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