Who really wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
"The Invisible Hand Behind Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird"
By JONATHAN MAHLER JULY 12, 2015
[New York Times]
“In the spring of 1957, a 31-year-old aspiring novelist named Harper Lee — everyone called her Nelle — delivered the manuscript for “Go Set a Watchman” to her agent to send out to publishers, including the now-defunct J. B. Lippincott Company, which eventually bought it.
“At Lippincott, the novel fell into the hands of Therese von Hohoff Torrey — known professionally as Tay Hohoff — a small, wiry veteran editor in her late 50s. Ms. Hohoff was impressed. “[T]he spark of the true writer flashed in every line,” she would later recount in a corporate history of Lippincott….”
https://archive.ph/Td517#selection-3379.493-3379.504
Oldest looking 36 year old in HISSSSTORY.
ReplyDeleteIf Ms Hohoff was in her 50s in the posted photo,SHE would be the oldest looking 50 some year old in hisssstory.
Different times,in many ways.
--GRA