Kerry Madden will Present Her Harper Lee Biography

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To celebrate the release of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, Kerry Madden will present her biography on Lee on Saturday, July 11th at 6:30 p.m. Intended for ages 12 and up, Harper Lee looks at a down-to-earth Southern woman who has shunned publicity for a simpler life. Madden will also present her book on storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham who was a dear friend of Harper Lee. Nothing Fancy About Kathryn and Charlie tells the story of an unlikely friendship between Kathryn and self-taught folk artist Tin Man Charlie Lucas. Go Set a Watchman is due out July 14th. Kerry is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and also teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles and at the Sewanee Young Writers Conference in Tennessee. The mother of three grown children, she divides her time between Birmingham and Los Angeles.