​A remembrance of Harper Lee

Here's one more reason we're all beholden to the late, great Harper Lee. Turns out the author of to Kill a Mockingbird was the No. 1 fan of Opus the penguin from Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County comic strip. And when he contemplated writing Opus out of 

Friends and family of author Harper Lee leave the First United Methodist Church after a private funeral service, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, in Monroeville, Ala. Lee, the elusive author of best-seller "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Friday, Feb. 19

Lee was also friendly with other tenants in the building. “She was a very Southern and hospitable type of person,” one neighbor said. Lee would finish the New York Times Magazine crossword puzzle by 9 a.m. every Sunday and leave it on a table in the 

Lee was also friendly with other tenants in the building. “She was a very Southern and hospitable type of person,” one neighbor said. Lee would finish the New York Times Magazine crossword puzzle by 9 a.m. every Sunday and leave it on a table in the 

MONROEVILLE, Ala. — Friends and family from around the corner and across the country gathered here on Saturday to pay final respects to Harper Lee, the author whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racial inequality in the South during the Jim Crow