Hey, Boo — Harper Lee and ‘To Kill A Mockingbird'

Reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" is something millions of us have in common. Harper Lee’s story of racism and rebirth in a small Southern town was published to great acclaim in the summer of 1960 and still sells nearly one million copies every year. In Hey, Boo — Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird, director Murphy explores the novel’s power, influence and popularity.

The movie explores many facets of the literary phenomenon, from the author herself to the civil rights movement entwined in the book’s DNA. With reflections from Anna Quindlen, Tom Brokaw, James McBride, James Patterson, Wally Lamb, Oprah Winfrey and more, the documentary and its accompanying book chronicle the many ways the novel has shaped lives and careers.

Harper Lee has not given an interview since 1964. Murphy’s reporting, research and rare interviews with the author’s sister 98-year-old Alice Lee, still practicing law in the Lees’ hometown of Monroeville, Alabama as well as friends, add new details and photos to the remarkable story of an astonishing phenomenon.

Hey, Boo — Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird goes beyond
the famed novel into the soul of its mysterious Alabama author.