· Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. Holt Paperbacks, Paperback. New. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Shields, Charles J. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Shields, Charles J. New; paperback; Condition New ISBN 10 ISBN 13 Seller. Basement Seller · Charles J. Shields is the author of And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life (Holt ), a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book. Also, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Holt ), an acclaimed, bestselling biography, recently revised as Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee from Scout to Go Set a Watchman (Holt ). Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Mockingbird, A Portrait of Harper Lee. Charles Shields wrote this biography without the cooperation of Harper Lee. He notes that she is an intensely private person. He felt it important to tell her story while people who know her are still alive. He begins with her childhood in depression era Monroeville, Alabama.
Praise for Mockingbird: "Harper Lee caught the beauty of America with To Kill a Mockingbird, but has remained something of a mystery ever bltadwin.rus J. Shields's portrait of her, Mockingbird, shows us a quietly reclusive, down-to-earth woman with an enormous gift and documents her struggle to live with that gift for the rest of her bltadwin.rus evocation of both the woman and her. Charles J. Shields is the author of the bestselling biography Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Henry Holt Co., , rev. ), the Kurt Vonnegut biography And So It Goes (Holt, ), the biography of Stoner author, John Edward Williams: The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel (University of Texas Press, ), and Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind 'A Raisin in the Sun' (Holt, ). 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.
Charles Shields is a former English teacher who taught Harper Lee's book, and a scrupulous journalist who respects the lady's privacy even as he opens up her life. Starting with Lee's childhood in Monroeville, AL, Shields depicts the people and events that inspired To Kill a Mockingbird's characters. A picture develops of a girl who would face down any bully, a nonconformist whose sorority roommates kicked her out after one semester but who made an impact on the campus with her presence, a woman with a wicked sense of humor and a writer with a voice and themes of prejudice and justice that resonate. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee Hardcover – Large Print, November 8, by. Charles J. Shields (Author) › Visit Amazon's Charles J. Shields Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Charles J. Shields (Author) out of 5 stars. ratings.
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