Missive in which the reclusive author of To Kill a Mocking Bird defends herself for not giving interviews is one of two to be sold
A letter from Harper Lee, in which the publicity shy author of To Kill a Mockingbird explains that "I simply don't give interviews, because it takes great skill to ask meaningful questions and very few people in the media have it", is set to go up for auction.
Lee, who won the Pulitzer prize for her 1960 story of racism in the American south but never published another book, is notoriously reclusive. She has not been interviewed since 1964, and the letter dated 15 July 2005 sees her tell her correspondent Dr Engelhardt that it is " hard enough" to live in her home town of Monroeville "with its Harper Lee tourist industry".
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