Harper Lee Expanded on Her View of the South in Letters to a Friend

In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.Harper Lee in a photograph taken by her friend Truman Capote. Taken in 1960, it was used on the dust jacket of the first edition of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”