Oprah entices Harper Lee
Harper Lee, author of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has written a rare published item -- a letter for Oprah Winfrey’s magazine on how she became a reader as a child in a rural Alabama town.
The 80-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner quit giving interviews about 40 years ago and, other than a 1983 review of an Alabama history book, has published nothing of significance in some four decades. That makes her article for O, the Oprah Magazine, something of a literary coup.
In a letter for the magazine’s July “special summer reading issue,” Lee tells of becoming a reader before first grade.
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TV pet: Moose, the feisty Jack Russell terrier who played the dog Eddie for 10 years on TV’s “Frasier,” has died of old age, his trainer said.
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