Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird dies
Posted Feb 19, 2016 01:27:04 PM.
Last Updated Feb 19, 2016 01:27:59 PM.
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Harper Lee, the author of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” has died.
It was her first novel, a book about racial injustice in a small Alabama town.
It became one of the most beloved and most taught works of fiction ever written.
Scott Hunter owns K-W Book-Store in Kitchener, and says the racial issues discussed in the novel made it a must read.
“You can’t deny the heft and the weight of a book culturally of To Kill a Mockingbird,” says Hunter. “It was certainly one of the most influential books of the century; very important in its age, a huge pre–civil rights novel as it were.”
He says To Kill a Mocking Bird is one of his all-time best sellers.
“I would say in 25 years at this store, I don’t think I’ve seen a book that’s sold more copies. We can’t keep it in stock,” says Hunter. “It’s on every course list imaginable, and it’s one of those books people still read for pleasure.”
Since it was first published in 1960, close to 40 million copies of To Kill a Mocking Bird have been sold worldwide.
Lee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author died at 89.
