Harper Lee Has a Backlist of One
Whenever I begin to worry too much about goals, and success, and output, and all that, I remind myself: Harper Lee.
Harper Lee wrote a novel.
It was her first novel.
She was past thirty years old when To Kill A Mockingbird was published in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a Library Journal poll.
She began another novel, but never finished it.
She published some essays, but never published any more fiction at all.
Yet I defy anyone to say
Harper Lee wrote a novel.
It was her first novel.
She was past thirty years old when To Kill A Mockingbird was published in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a Library Journal poll.
She began another novel, but never finished it.
She published some essays, but never published any more fiction at all.
Yet I defy anyone to say
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