BIRMINGHAM, ALA.—A batch of letters hand written by To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee has sold for more than $16,000. A statement from the Los Angeles-based Nate D. Sanders Auctions says 38 letters from the deceased novelist to friend Felic Itzkoff went for $16,140 in a sale held Thursday night. The letters span the period from December 2005 to May 2010 and include a note written on Jan. 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama was inaugurated as the nation’s first black president. The auction company says other letters talked about Lee’s Southern heritage; her father; and Christianity and her apparent atheism. Lee died in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in February 2016 about seven months after publishing Go Set a Watchman, a companion book to her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Source: thestar October 27, 2017 13:30 UTC