Scout, Atticus, and Boo

by McDonagh Murphy, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780061924071
• ISBN10: 0061924075
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-08
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

To Kill a Mockingbird may well be our national novel. It is the first adult novel that many of us remember reading, one book that millions of us have in common. It sells nearly a million copies a year, more than any other twentieth-century American classic. Harper Lee's first and only novel, published in July 1960, is a beloved classic and touchstone in American literary and social history. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird, Mary McDonagh Murphy reviews its history and examines how the novel has left its mark on a broad range of novelists, historians, journalists, and artists. In compelling interviews, Anna Quindlen, Tom Brokaw, Oprah Winfrey, James Patterson, James McBride, Scott Turow, Wally Lamb, Andrew Young, Richard Russo, Adriana Trigiani, Rick Bragg, Jon Meacham, Allan Gurganus, Diane McWhorter, Lee Smith, Rosanne Cash, and others reflect on when they first read the novel, what it means to them - then and now - and how it has affected their lives and careers. Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a lively appreciation of the many ways in which the novel has made - and continues to make - a difference to generations of readers. Harper Lee has not given an interview since 1964, but Murphy's reporting, research, and rare interviews with the author's sister and friends stitch together a brief history of how the novel, as well as the acclaimed 1962 movie, came to be.

Author Biography

Mary McDonagh Murphy is an independent documentary director and writer whose work has appeared on PBS. For twenty years she was a producer at CBS News, where she won six Emmy Awards. She has written for Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Post, and Publishers Weekly. A native of Rhode Island, Murphy is a graduate of Wesleyan University and was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She lives in Scarborough, New York, with her husband, Bob Minzesheimer, and their two children.

Table of Contents

Foreword: A Mockingbird Mosaic	p. ix
Scout, Atticus, and Boo	p. 1
The Interviews	p. 43
Mary Badham	p. 45
Boaty Boatwright	p. 51
Rick Bragg	p. 57
Tom Brokaw	p. 61
The Reverend Thomas Lane Butts	p. 66
Rosanne Cash	p. 74
Mark Childress	p. 76
Jane Ellen Clark	p. 85
Allan Gurganus	p. 95
David Kipen	p. 104
Wally Lamb	p. 110
Alice Finch Lee	p. 119
James McBride	p. 130
Diane McWhorter	p. 140
Jon Meacham	p. 147
Allison Moorer	p. 150
James Patterson	p. 155
Anna Quindlen	p. 159
Richard Russo	p. 167
Lizzie Skurnick	p. 172
Lee Smith	p. 176
Adriana Trigiani	p. 181
Mary Tucker	p. 187
Scott Turow	p. 194
Oprah Winfrey	p. 199
Andrew Young	p. 205
Illustration Credits	p. 215
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