{"id":287,"date":"2016-02-19T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=287"},"modified":"2016-02-19T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:37:37","slug":"you-will-be-missed-harper-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"You will be missed, Harper Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, has died. She was 89.<\/p>\n

Lee died Friday, publisher HarperCollins said in a statement. It did not give any other details about how she died.<\/p>\n

“The world knows Harper Lee was a brilliant writer but what many don’t know is that she was an extraordinary woman of great joyfulness, humility and kindness. She lived her life the way she wanted to \u2014 in private \u2014 surrounded by books and the people who loved her,” Michael Morrison, head of HarperCollins U.S. general books group, said in the statement.<\/p>\n\n

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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, has died. She was 89. Lee died Friday, publisher HarperCollins said in a statement. It did not give any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writery-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t