MOBILE, Alabama -- Centenarian Alice Lee -- the oldest lawyer still practicing in Alabama -- was featured Monday night in a PBS documentary about her famous sister, "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee.
She also gave an interview that is online at The Daily Beast website. She talked to writer Mary McDonagh Murphy about topics including Truman Capote, her sister Nelle Harper Lee and life in Monroeville, Alabama.
"To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee's only novel, is widely regarded as a classic. Set in a town she called Maycomb, the story of Atticus Finch, Scout and Tom Robinson illustrates the racial politics of the 1930s.
Alice Lee told Murphy that that Nelle Harper "grew up quite the little tomboy" and later became a novelist who "did not think that a writer needed to be recognized in person and it bothered her when she became too familiar."
Read the complete article on The Daily Beast website.
Last year, Alice Lee also granted an interview to the Press-Register's Ben Raines, and his article about her is online at al.com.
Harper Lee (The Birmingham News/Linda Stelter)
While Nelle Harper has long shunned attention, Miss Alice, as she her older sister is known to everyone in Monroeville, has enjoyed the spotlight in her role in the documentary, “Hey Boo.” The documentary -- which aired on PBS as part of the "American Masters" series -- premiering last summer at the Crescent Theater on Dauphin Street in Mobile.
In the film, Miss Alice explains that her sister retreated from public life in the 1960s because "as time went on, she said reporters began taking too many liberties with what she said."
Alice Lee told Raines, "Everybody who comes to Monroeville wants to visit with Nelle, and she’s not up to that. So we have to cut it off and say she’s not available. She sees her good friends and her family."
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