The author of To Kill a Mockingbird remained a reclusive figure despite the novel’s success. This biography sheds light on her enigmatic character, her relations with Truman Capote and her editor Tay Hohoff, the death of her beloved sister Alice, and the controversy around her former agent’s acquisition of the Mockingbird copyright. Fully revised and updated, it includes the surprise publication of her first novel, long believed lost, in 2015, shortly before she died. Slightly off-mint.