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This image released by DKC/O&M shows Ed Harris in a scene from the play “To Kill a Mockingbird,&quot; in New York. For one night only in February, the stage adaptation of Harper Lee's iconic book will be performed exclusively for 18,000 public school children free of charge at Madison Square Garden. ( Julieta Cervantes/DKC/O&M via AP)

Play ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ flies to Madison Square Garden

By Mark Kennedy - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007, file photo, &quot;To Kill A Mockingbird&quot; author Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor, at the state Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. Lee railed against her Alabama hometown for trying to exploit her success in a letter that helps explain later legal battles involving commercialization of her novel. The writer's bitter assessment of Monroeville comes in a three-page letter that's being sold with other items by Bonhams auctions. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

‘Mockingbird’ author compared hometown to Elvis’ Graceland

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

FILE - This combination photo shows Hollywood and Broadway producer Scott Rudin at The National Board of Review Motion Pictures awards gala in New York on Jan. 11, 2011, left, and the cover of Harper Lee's &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird.&quot; Rudin is offering a compromise to community and nonprofit theaters that were forced to abandon productions of the play under legal threat. In a statement provided Saturday, March 2, 2019 to The Associated Press, Rudin said the theaters are being offered the right to perform writer Aaron Sorkin’s version of the play now on stage in New York. Rudin hopes this makes up for the “hurt” suffered by theater companies that were told to cancel what he called improperly licensed productions.(AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ compromise offered to small theaters

By LYNN ELBER - Associated Press

Mockingbird on Broadway will go on after lawsuit settlement

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007, file photo, author Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. Six letters donated to Emory University and being made public Monday, April 2, 2018, show the author lamenting the conservative values of her native Monroeville, Alabama, and longing to back in New York. They also reflect her deep compassion for her father, A.C. Lee, the basis for the famous fictional lawyer Atticus Finch. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

Harper Lee letters offer candid takes on religion, family

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007 file photo, author Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. The estate of &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird&quot; author Lee has filed suit over an upcoming Broadway adaptation of the novel set to open in Dec. 2018. The federal lawsuit filed this week in Alabama argues that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's script wrongly alters Atticus Finch and other characters from the book. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

Harper Lee estate sues over ‘Mockingbird’ Broadway version

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

Author Harper Lee’s will made public, but not estate details

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007, file photo, author Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. A batch of letters hand written by &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird&quot; author Harper Lee has sold for more than $12,000. A statement from the Los Angeles-based Nate D. Sanders Auctions says 38 letters from the deceased novelist to friend Felic Itzkoff went for $12,500 in a sale held Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

Letters from Harper Lee to friend sell for $12,500

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ to be issued as graphic novel

Associated Press

Harper Lee letters from new book take stage in Auburn

By CYNTHIA WILLIFORD - Associated Press

This Nov. 20, 2016 photo released by Alabama Tourism Department, shows a building that will be used for a Harper Lee museum in her hometown of Monroeville, Ala. A group is looking at ways to lure more tourists to the city, which served as a model for the fictional town of Maycomb in Lee's books &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird&quot; and &quot;Go Set a Watchman.&quot; (Lee Sentell/Alabama Tourism Department via AP)

Alabama town expanding Harper Lee attractions

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

Deal set to stage ‘Mockingbird’ play in author’s hometown

Associated Press

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 &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird,&quot; died Friday, Feb. 19, according to her publisher Harper Collins. She was 89. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

‘Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee buried in Alabama hometown

By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

This picture provided by Universal Studios Home Entertainment shows actors Gregory Peck, foreground left, and Brock Peters, foreground right, in a scene from the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird." (Associated Press) ** FILE **

‘Go Set A Watchman’ reveals Atticus Finch as a racist: ‘Do you want them in our world?’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This May 19, 2010, photo provided by Penny Weaver shows author Nelle Harper Lee in her assisted living room in Montoeville, Ala. (AP Photo/Penny Weaver) ** FILE **

Harper Lee elder-abuse investigation closed by Alabama agency

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007, file photo, Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, &quot;To kill a Mockingbird,&quot; smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. Publisher Harper announced Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, that &quot;Go Set a Watchman,&quot; a novel Lee completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. It will be her second published book. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

Second Harper Lee novel to be published in July

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

‘Mockingbird’ author’s settlement with museum off

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007, file photo, author Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. “To Kill a Mockingbird” will be made available as an e-book and digital audiobook in July 2014, filling one of the biggest gaps in the electronic library. Author Harper Lee said in a rare public statement Monday, April 28, 2014, issued through HarperCollins Publishers, that while she still favored “dusty” books she had signed on for making “Mockingbird” available to a “new generation.” (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ finally going digital

By BY HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

FILE -In this Aug. 20, 2007 file photo, author Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird&quot; author Harper Lee has settled the federal lawsuit she filed against a museum in her hometown of Monroeville, Ala., over its sale of souvenirs featuring her name and the title of her book. A settlement notice was filed Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, just days after a judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

‘Mockingbird’ author settles museum lawsuit

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press