Shields to write Vonnegut’s biography, with blessing
When you think of Harper Lee, do you think bad-ass? Neither did I, until I started reading Charles J. Shields’ Mockingbird, an unauthorized biography that paints the young Lee as a quick-witted, potty-mouthed, intensely private law school drop-out whose success as a first-time novelist so overwhelmed her that she retreated into the bosom of her Alabama hometown, never to publish . . .