Reclusive author Harper Lee attends Ala. student performance of ‘Mockingbird’
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A high school play based on Harper Lee’s classic “To Kill a Mockingbird†brought together black and white high school students to tell the classic story of racial injustice – and even drew out the novel’s reclusive author.
Wednesday night’s invitation-only performance was organized to celebrate diversity and arts education in Alabama, the home state of the novel’s author, whose book and the movie made from it won immediate acclaim at a time when Alabama was still rigidly segregated.
What a treat for those kids!
