Authors: Charles J. Shields
27
. Wayne Greenhaw, letter to author, 1 November 2005.
28
. R. Philip Hanes, interview with author, 6 December 2004.
29
. Michael Shelden, “The Writer Vanishes: The 36-Year Silence of Harper Lee,”
Daily Telegraph,
12 April 1997.
30
. David Kipen, letter to author, 23 November 2005. Mr. Kipen is the National Endowment for the Arts literature director.
31
. Wayne Greenhaw, interview with author, 20 March 2004.
32
. Peter Griffiths, letter to the author, 26 April 2005. Mr. Griffiths was a researcher for the BBC in 1982, which visited Monroeville for a documentary about
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Chapter 10: Quiet Time
1
. Tom Radney, interview with author, 14 November 2005.
2
. Jubera, “To Find a Mockingbird.”
3
. Tom Radney, interview with author, 14 November 2005.
4
. Ralph Hammond, interview with author, 20 March 2005.
5
. Burstein, “Tiny, Yes, but a Terror?”
6
. James Wolcott, “Tru Grit,”
Vanity Fair,
October 2005, 166.
7
. Tom Radney, interview with author, 14 November 2005.
8
. Ibid.
9
. Drew Jubera, “âMockingbird' Still Sings Despite Silence of Author Harper Lee,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
26 August 1990, M1 and M3.
10
. William Smart, interview with author, 2 July 2004.
11
. Clarke,
Capote: A Biography,
22.
12
. Harper Lee to Caldwell Delaney, 30 December 1988. Robert Hicks, author of
Widow of the South
(New York: Warner Books, 2005), came upon this letter in a used copy of Clarke's
Capote: A Biography.
13
.
Monroeville: The Search for Harper Lee's Maycomb,
86.
14
. Christopher Sergel to Annie Laurie Williams, 5 January 1965, Williams papers, box 149, folder L.
15
. “Harper Lee, Read but Not Heard,”
Washington Post,
17 August 1990.
16
. Roy Hoffman, “Long Lives the Mockingbird,”
New York Times,
9 August 1998.
17
. Kathy McCoy, letter to author, 11 August 2004.
18
. Dr. Wanda Bigham, former president of Huntingdon College, letter to author, 25 May 2004.
19
. George Thomas Jones, letter to author, 30 August 2003.
20
. Mills, “A Life Apart.”
21
. Ibid.
22
. J. Wes Yoder, “Debating the Details: Some Residents of Monroeville Prefer to Ponder the Fine Points of Famous Novel,”
Expressions
(online magazine), Auburn University Journalism Department, 2001.
23
. Mills, “A Life Apart.”
24
. Kathy Kemp, “Mockingbird Won't Sing,”
News & Observer,
12 November 1997, E1.
25
. Mary Tomlinson, letter to author, 2 November 2005.
26
. Carla Jean Whitley, “Small-Town Q&A: Amanda McMillan.”
Crimson White,
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, 9 October 2003.
27
. Don Collins, interview with author, 1 April 2004.
28
. Alice Lee, “92nd Birthday Newsletter,” 22 September 2003.
29
. Mills, “A Life Apart.”
30
. Carolyn Crawford, interview with author, 1 February 2003.
31
. “One Version of the Harper Lee Story,” Harper Lee listserv at
www.yahoogroups.com
, 11 October 2005.
32
. Nelle Lee to Helen McGowin, 20 November 1961, Caldwell Delaney papers, University of South Alabama Archives.
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