Updated 14:07 Saturday, February 20, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) - Harper Lee is dead, but the conversation about his life and work is just beginning.
"I think the retrospective is more useful than what was said during his lifetime, because there are many things are, we can move on to the things that were possible previously," friend Wayne Flynt Lee, a historian based Alabama, he told the Associated Press.
Lees death Friday in 89 years comes almost exactly one year after his publisher HarperCollins, surprised the world by announcing that a second novel by the author of "Kill a Mockingbird To" would be solved, ending what many thought was a permanent literary silence and urgently desired.
Lee confined to a nursing home in his native Monroeville, Alabama, and communicate through press releases that many asked if they ever on the debate on her mood and in the second book did "a vigilante go", he took without them. Probably, when the family to grow finally speak and learn more about what, if any, other writings he left behind.
"Each of the traders at the till at the local Minister is lovingly remind Harper Lee or personal interest, depending on how they were treated," said Lee biographer Charles Shields, including "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee" it was in reissued in 2006 and released this year.
Flynt, who gave the eulogy at the private funeral Saturday in Monroe Lee belongs to which account for a memory.
Lee retreat from public life in the last fifty years has created a secret; the publication last summer of "Go vigilant", another began. Millions of people who thought they "knew" Atticus Finch, the named his sons with him and lawyers was because an apparently other man he over in the new book, the course lasted 20 years later but in fact it was written before Lee back what has become "to Kill a Mockingbird".
The bold lawyer who defended accused in 1930 a black man of rape in "Mockingbird" to prohibit in a devil's condemnation of the 1954 Supreme Court decision at the age of segregation in public schools reactionary. Atticus was "Mockingbird" a romantic figure Atticus "vigilant" about the truth? No Atticus who exactly Lee's father reflected, really changed or was simply a convenient patrician with the old rules, when all the forces are among the whites?
Ralph Eubanks, former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and currently a visiting professor at Southern Studies in Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, the brilliance of "Mockingbird" said, is how to make someone a north or south they identify the problems and the characters ,
"On" a guard go ", had you support person," he said. "That to me has changed the dynamic."
In an email to The Associated Press, award-winning historian Isabel Wilkerson Lee said two legacies had created worthy.
"Harper Lee has given us a great gift: a beloved vision of our best efforts in" To Kill a Mockingbird "and sensitive reflection of what is below the previous handwriting:" Go vigilant, "Wilkerson wrote, best known for" the heat of other suns "that traces the black migration from the south in the 20th century.
"In the meantime, she gave us brave the history of our country we think in generations."
James McBride, winner of the National Book Award in 2013 for his novel "God bird" and author of the forthcoming nonfiction "Kill 'em and leave' James Brown said that the inscription" To Kill a Mockingbird "as a child on their was desired, you are an author and "crystallized" for him a racism that "floating" consciousness. Nobel prize Toni Morrison and others had been, the book marks a "white savior" novel but McBride believes that "Mockingbird" is the best History Lee might have said.
"Yes, I would like to see show black characters more dimension," he said. "But Harper Lee gave everything I had. She has nothing left, and that's everything you could ask for."
McBride re-read "Mockingbird" a few times, capture important new details with each reading, and gave the book to their children, also.
It does not read "go a vigilante."
"I prefer to remember" To Kill a Mockingbird "and Atticus Finch and all these signs that Harper Lee wanted us to remember them. I think it is not strong enough to was at the end of his life, to make informed decisions about their making work, "he said.
"There is no doubt in my mind that Harper Lee is a great American writer with the best intentions. You have somewhere to start conversation on race, and Harper Lee is an ideal place to start."
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