Nelle Harper Lee | April 28, 1926 - Feb. 19, 2016

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Rick Bragg: This Book Changed My Life


My first copy was dog-eared and sunbaked, the pages brittle and brown, as if the paperback had rested in the back window of an old Pontiac instead of on a library shelf. Some kind of pestilence—water bugs, I believe—had gotten to it before I did, and it was hard to tell, as I turned to that first page, which of us would get more from