
Best, Nelle.” Following the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, Lee became increasingly reclusive, granting almost no requests for interviews or public appearances and, with the exception of a few short essays, publishing nothing further until 2015. I’ll be back by the first of October, but if you need a quote before then, please send galleys to Monroeville, zip 36460. They’re probably sitting in New York somewhere. SeptemDear Sandy: No, I didn’t receive galleys on James Purdy’s – but I’d like to. Addressed to Stewart Richardson, Executive Editor of Doubleday & Company, the postcard reads in full, “Monroeville, Ala. With an autograph postcard signed by and entirely in the hand of Harper Lee laid in. Lippincott Company, 1960.įirst edition of one of the most important American novels of the 20th century which had an initial first printing of 5,000 copies and went on to earn Harper Lee the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
