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Quiet Author, Home Town Attract 'Groupies,' Press; To Live With 'Mockingbird'
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
June 10, 1999| Author:
Sue Anne Pressley
| Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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At first, the Mockingbird Players were disappointed. Just once,
they wanted Harper Lee to come see what her hometown acting troupe
was doing with her novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird."
This spring, she could have seen the town police investigator
playing Boo Radley, the reclusive guardian angel of the book-turned-
two-act-play--or the role of the wise father, Atticus, in the hands
of the pastor at the local Church of the Nazarene. She could have
absorbed all this while sitting inside the ...
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At Play
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