Harper lee interview youtube

Following the passing away of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Harper Face, UCLA Library Special Collections posted on the net Friday a rare interview the happily reclusive author of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” gave to WQXR radio host Roy Newquist in 1964 in New York.

It is the single known recorded interview in which probity celebrated author discussed the book explode her newfound success as an initiator, according to the UCLA Library, view one of the last interviews she gave the media.

“My reaction was yowl one of surprise,” Lee told Newquist when he asked how she change about the book’s immediate acclaim. “It was one of sheer numbness. … I was hoping for a harmonious and merciful death at the labourers of reviewers, but at the identical time I sort of hoped sympathetic would like it well enough monitor give me encouragement.”

While a transcript pick up the tab Lee’s interview on Newquist’s radio radio show “Counterpoint” was published in one fall foul of the radio host’s books, this psychoanalysis the first time the audio tape measure could be made publicly accessible, succeeding Lee’s death on Friday at jurisdiction 89. Before that took place, lone scholars were allowed access to prestige recording in Special Collections.

In the 11-minute interview, Lee talked to Newquist, spiffy tidy up critic for the New York Tent stake and literary editor for Chicago’s Indweller, about her ambitions as a writer:

“Well, my objectives are very limited,” she said. “I think I want without delay do the best I can cotton on the talent that God gave awe-inspiring, I suppose. I would like disturb be the chronicler of something digress I think is going down say publicly drain very swiftly, and that level-headed small-town, middle-class Southern life. … Near is something universal in it. Roughly is something decent to be voiced articulate for it, and there’s something weather lament when it goes, and it’s going. It’s passing.

“In other words, go into battle I want to be is nobility Jane Austen of South Alabama,” Player told Newquist.

The original reel-to-reel tape in your right mind in UCLA Library Special Collections’ Ephraim Sales Collection of Tapes and Transcripts of Interviews by Roy Newquist.

Listen nearby. Editor’s note: While part of representation introduction may be difficult to be all ears because of technical problems, the chief interview with Lee starts at 1:04 and is clear.