Gabe from Decatur Docs summarizes tomorrow night’s event for us…

This Saturday, January 22 at Decatur High School’s Performing Center, DecaturDocs presents its second program, HEY, BOO: HARPER LEE AND TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, with support from the Decatur Book Festival. As with all DecaturDocs events, this screening will include context setting “apéritifs,” At 7:00 PM, director Mary Murphy, will be signing copies of her book Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of 50 Years of To Kill a Mockingbird. At 7:45 PM, DHS Students read from their favorite Mockingbird passages.

The 8:00 PM screening, which features interviews with and readings by Tom Brokaw, Ambassador Andrew Young, authors James Patterson and media mogul and book club founder Oprah Winfrey, as well as Mary Badham—the Scout in the original feature film will be followed by an engaging and dynamic topical discussion. On his Verb Blog, Decatur Book Festival’s Daren Wang already delivered the first salvo with his take on the classics of Southern American Literature: “In the popular mind, there are two giants of Southern Writing. Mockingbird, and that trashy thing whats-her-name wrote over on Peachtree Street.” Mary Murphy, one of the most knowledgeable folks on the subject of Mockingbird–with the notable exception of Harper Lee herself–can’t wait to discuss it all with you.

EXTRA:  Mary Murphy was featured on a C-SPAN BookTV event recently, which can be viewed in full HERE.

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