February 19, 2016
American fiction expert available to talk about Harper Lee’s legacy
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pulitzer Prize winner Harper Lee, 89, died Friday (Feb. 19), and a Purdue University English professor is available to talk about her legacy, contributions to American literature and racial identity in 20th-Century American fiction. Her 1961 book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," is widely regarded as an American classic.
John Duvall, the Margaret Church Distinguished Professor of English, specializes in
American literature, 20th-century American fiction, modernism and postmodernism. He is the author of “Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction” (2008) and is editor of Modern Fiction Studies.
CONTACT: John Duvall, jduvall@purdue.edu
Writer: John Hughey, 765-494-2432, hugheyj@purdue.edu