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Harper Lee and Umberto Eco

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
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Both gone in last day.

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  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,715
    RIP

    both literature greats.

    to kill a mocking bird is still one of my favourite books.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Wasn't there some scandal that she didn't write TKAMB ?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    There was a theory that it was written by Trueman Capote but only because they were childhood friends.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    edited February 2016
    Harper Lee an O-Level staple if you are of a certain vintage.

    Umberto Eco i do not know much about apart from a ridiculous performance as a er Scottish monk in The Name of the Rose by Sean Connery...

    RIP
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,715
    edited February 2016
    AFKABartram said:

    Wasn't there some scandal that she didn't write TKAMB ?

    there was a rumour that Truman Capote wrote it or heavily edited it. there's no fact to it. he wrote a letter to his aunt 6 months before the book got published saying his friend harper is writing a book and he had read most of it and thought it was good.

    he was also a man with an ego who always wanted to win the pulitzer prize and never did. where as mockingbird did win it and the national book award. so I'm sure he would of maybe hinted helping harper if that was the case. Harper also helped Capote on his book In cold blood after mockingbird was finished.

    I think most of it was because she never published anything else afterwards. people find that strange. if you have had success and fortune why not continue it? she didn't want to. maybe she only had the one book in her at the time? maybe she didn't like the fame? she was a private person. who knows?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    RIP ..
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Karim_myBagheri said:

    AFKABartram said:

    Wasn't there some scandal that she didn't write TKAMB ?

    there was a rumour that Truman Capote wrote it or heavily edited it. there's no fact to it. he wrote a letter to his aunt 6 months before the book got published saying his friend harper is writing a book and he had read most of it and thought it was good.

    he was also a man with an ego who always wanted to win the pulitzer prize and never did. where as mockingbird did win it and the national book award. so I'm sure he would of maybe hinted helping harper if that was the case. Harper also helped Capote on his book In cold blood after mockingbird was finished.

    I think most of it was because she never published anything else afterwards. people find that strange. if you have had success and fortune why not continue it? she didn't want to. maybe she only had the one book in her at the time? maybe she didn't like the fame? she was a private person. who knows?
    She was a fascinating literary figure. From many accounts, Go Set A Watchman, released last year, is not to be considered cannon.

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/19/go-set-a-watchman-harper-lee-legacy-to-kill-a-mockingbird

    Remember that J.D. Salinger published very little in his lifetime after the success of Catcher in the Rye. T.S. Eliot has a relatively small cannon of work, took roughly ten years to write Prufrock, another five or so to write The Waste Land, and then seven years off until Ash Wednesday (and demanded no biography be written about him).

    I think for some, writing takes so much out of them that it is hard to keep going.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP

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