Signed by Author 1st Edition Hardcover Mockingbird A Portrait Of Harper Lee

Description: Mockingbird A Portrait Of Harper LeeFirst Edition Signed by Author Charles J. Shields Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket with red title lettering to cream cloth spine.(appears unread). No Faults. Not Price clipped with $25 showing to inner flap. This copy has been personalized "To Mark - Good Reading to you" and Signed by the Author Charles J. Shields on the Title Page. The book has a firm binding with NO leaning or rolling to spine. Lovely clean copy internally with crisp white page edges. This would make for an ideal gift for someone as the book is they do not come any better than this in terms of condition. After many years of research Charles J. Shields has brought to life the warmhearted and high-spirited, and on occasions the hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable novels. It's still a marvelous book that after all these years sells in excess of 1 million copies each year. 8vo 337pp First US Edition 1st Impression [2006]. Synopsis:The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird--the classic that became a touchstone for generations of AmericansTo Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite the book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields has brought to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters--Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout--and who contributed to the success of her lifelong friend Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood.At the center of Shields's lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel. But her life contains many other highlights as well: her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of the Clutter murders; the surrogate family she found in New York City.Drawing on six hundred interviews and much new information, Mockingbird is the first book ever written about Harper Lee. Highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart, this is an evocative portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.About the Author:Charles J. Shields is the author of And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, the highly acclaimed, bestselling biography of Harper Lee, and I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers). He grew up in the Midwest and taught in a rural school in central Illinois for several years. He has been a reporter for public radio, a journalist, and the author of nonfiction books for young people. He and his wife live near Charlottesville, Virginia. Free S&H (tracking # provided). I will try to ship next business day after PayPal payment is made by the buyer. inventory: BR2 closet

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