The fictional town in "To Kill a Mockingbird" was based on Monroeville, Ala., but the 1962 movie was not filmed in Monroeville.

For years before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee wrote short stories with themes that she would later ...

After To Kill a Mockingbird launched the Alabama-born author to international fame, scholars assumed that those early stories ... puzzle of the life and work of Harper Lee.” ...

Harper Lee, who was famous until the year before her ... Stories and Essays,” contains “several unseen short stories from the early creative years of the legendary author,” publisher ...

Ben Martin/Getty Fans of legendary To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee have something to look forward ... it means to lead an engaged and creative life.” ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fall. NEW YORK (AP) — Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a ...

After Lee's death in 2016, typescripts of her early fiction were discovered in her New York apartment. The previously unseen drafts offer new insights into her creative development ...

and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.” The stories draw on Lee’s childhood in Alabama and her life as a young writer in Manhattan, dining at luncheonettes and going to the movies. In one story ...

Harper Lee author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird photographed in her New York apartment, July 1960.

By Alexandra Alter For years before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee wrote short stories with themes that she would later explore in that now-classic novel: small town gossip ...