Carolyn M. Jones (essay date 2002)
SOURCE: Jones, Carolyn M. “Harper Lee.” In The History of Southern Women's Literature, edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks, pp. 413-18. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
[In the following essay, Jones provides a general overview of To Kill a Mockingbird and its critical reception.]
As Harper Lee struggled to rework the manuscript of To Kill a Mockingbird, Newsweek reported in 1961, her supporters at Lippincott were “screaming and yelling, hollering,...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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