Harper Lee Is Dead

One of the South's greatest writers dies at 89. Here's Lee as a young'n. Michael Brown
The mayor of Monroeville, Alabama confirmed it: Harper Lee has died. Monroeville was Lee's birthplace and deathplace, as well as the basis for Maycomb, the fictional town where Lee set her novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman.Lee's description of Maycomb in TKAM is one the best paragraphs anyone's ever written:
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy we