Harper Lee : a twentieth century life / by Kerry Madden.
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- ISBN: 9780670010950
- ISBN: 0670010952
- Physical Description: 223 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking Children's Books, 2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary, etc.: | This biography tells the story of how Harper Lee struggled to become an author and created one of the most popular novels of the 20th century. |
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Subject: | Lee, Harper > Juvenile literature. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography > Juvenile literature. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. |
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Kerry Madden (www.kerrymadden.com) is the author of the Appalachian Maggie Valley Trilogy: Gentle's Holler , Louisiana's Song , and Jessie's Mountain (all Viking). Her other books include Offsides , a 1997 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age selection, Writing Smarts , which helps kids craft their own stories and poetry, and Nothing Fancy About Kathryn & Charlie , about a Selma, Alabama friendship between a storyteller and a folk artist. Kerry is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alabama Birmingham and also teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles and at the Sewanee Young Writers Conference in Tennessee. The mother of three grown children, she divides her time between Birmingham and Los Angeles.