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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel?s celebrated author has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, trying and failing to get an interview her. But in 2001, Nelle Harper Lee and her sister Alice opened their door to journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a long conversation . . .
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Marja Mills is a former reporter and feature writer for the Chicago Tribune, where she was a member of the staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for a 2001 series about O'Hare Airport entitled "Gateway to Gridlock." The Mockingbird Next Door is her first book.
Mills was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She is a 1985 graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service; a lifelong interest in other cultures led to studies in Paraguay, Spain and Sweden. Mills lives in downtown Chicago and often spends time in Madison and her father's hometown of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, pop. 3,500.
