If that were on for me, can you imagine what it was like for her . And i think on a sad note she had been so complementary of Philip Stephen hoffmans performance of Truman Capote, and somehow managed to inhabit this very petite figure and very sort of particular mannerism of Truman Capote who, have been hurt childhood playmate for a time in monroe bill, and adult friend although not without bumps. As adults. She predicted that evening well before he was to win the oscar that he would do so. And said it was uncanny the way hed been able to capture something essential about Truman Capote. I remember making a note to myself that when the book did come out that it would be wonderful to be able to share a look at more about that within. I was driving to the airport here when i got the news that you passed away and felt the sadness i think everyone who admired his work. A little extra because about a lost opportunity to share with him her appreciation that evening of the movie. She also told me that she wrote the filmmaker of the of the movie, the other capote movie, as if i dont like to be no, but i believe it came out second, the one where Sandra Bullock plays nelle. She spotted in a photograph about the filming of that movie, Sandra Bullock where i believe it was wife bobbi sox with pumps. Nelle is not someone who spent a lot of time as i mentioned worrying about that, but that was a little more than she could take, and i remember her saying, i never. But told me after the movie came out she did drop a note to the filmmaker and said, you have created a creature of such sweetness, and called her harper lee, that i forgive the sox. [laughter] so they were off the hook on that. Gets it out any audience but ill ask staff while im finishing up these questions, if staff will bring me the audience questions and is to salute we will get to the drawing eventually. But if you bring those up on stage we will appreciate it. That was what took so long . Can you have a timeout . Great, thank you. Thank you very much. I really want to ask this question. I dont know, im sure many in the audience knows space before you even start, just thinking back like a writer im ready to rewrite a chapter. I think you start asked me about catherine copper wind at the after spent as much time with alabama storytellers, you have to forgive me if i take some side trips. I have been tutored in the school of storytelling i would say. I think you asked me how it was that nelle came to give me some of the tapes of Kathryn Tucker windham telling those marvelous stories of first. I was thanks to nelle. Matt kibbe long after i had moved next door and the settling into this house with unfamiliar clinks and sounds of the old furnace and getting thoroughly spooked at times. There was some tax attorney on the walls that didnt match my decor at home and it took a little getting used to. I consider a first but those are hanging towels over the deer head, and a couple other creatures i wasnt entirely sure what they were because i felt like those marble eyes were following me as i was unpacking my books. I decided that would be creepy or even than just having the marble eyes follow me. So i learned to live with my roommates. It was lonely sometimes. I have lupus which is an autoimmune disorder that can leave you quite tight. I spent a fair amount of time both in chicago and then while in monroeville in bed and resting at home. It could be lonely. I missed having a voice in the room at the been damaged to the antenna for television better, so there wasnt Much Television which kind of broke me of that habit for the most part which was kind of a side benefit i would say of my time there. And i couldnt get npr which i will admit as a good chicago girl i was used to my npr. The reception with it as you get closer to monroeville and i just wanted, i just wanted to from people who have made that drive maybe. I just want to sort of a friend voice in the room with me to keep me company. And nelle harper came up with a perfect three word remedy, Kathryn Tucker windham. And came over one day. She would always come into my kitchen door in good alabama neighborly fashion and said, here, these are for you. They were the first few, of as many as i could find a Kathryn Tucker windhams tapes talking about growing up as she did. I think there were some real parallels to the way nelle harper grew up. So they were a delight. Can you imagine a better voice to have in the room with you . Especially if youre going to play a tape three times, four times, five times i always remember her saying that she tossed off in her stories, and a friend asked her why and she realized the explanation might be that her father would pause, i believe was too light a pipe, jake . So perhaps that was a habit she picked up, but she was also somebody that i think nelle admired for the way she captured a particular way of life when she was growing up. And since nelle was able to do more or less resource good job of that herself, i would say that was a pretty good recommendation. Youve given me two great leadin. I cant introduce everybody. We have so many celebrities in the office, but Kathryn Tucker windhams children are here. [applause] and they have written a new catherines original book, approaching its 50th anniversary. The children have written an afterword. I know where you can get a copy last night. That would be the barnes noble right, right. No more vodka. [laughter] you werent going to tell. My impression, briefly, they had such admiration nelle harper and alice did for the father. And the role he played in the small town. That seem to be one of the things that speeded certainly true in catherine. You gave me another great introduction. Those of you who know and have read laura l. A brand to of great books of all time, seabiscuit and unbroken, i think many of you know that for most of the time she wrote those books she never left her room. She had Chronic Fatigue syndrome and wrote literally most of those books in her bed. We know that health has been a factor with you, both in the time you spend in monroeville and writing this book like laura hillenbrand. You spent the majority of the time writing this book in bed. I did. Tell us how in the world that was. I did write most of the book in bed with lupus, frequent rest is a hell. So i was kind of working in whatever chance i could but a lot of times just there in my apartment in chicago in bed. To me it was, it was the power of books to transport you to another time, to another place. I would never when i first read to kill a mockingbird i was in ninth grade at Madison West High School in my hometown of madison, wisconsin. Snowy day but feeling transported sitting in the old creepy overheated library through the streets of me. And there was an element of macom. The chance to be out and about traveling and meeting people. So it was frustrating when i was having to spend large chunks of time in bed and alone, have wonderful supportive family and friends, and my mom, carla, over here traveling with me in making all the difference as usual. And so i had good company and i still had Kathryn Tucker windham, believe me, in the room with me on those tapes. But also was a chance at a time when it was frustrating to having to be at home so much. To travel by way of written word, reading it and writing it. And, of course, in the writing of this i was reliving a lot of the experiences i had in monroeville and felt quite often i was sort of at a road of a remarkable woman in her own right, who was the helper when i was living next door, i kind of felt like i was resurfacing sometimes in the bedroom at the end of the day after spending time in my imagination and in research and my notes in monroeville, if that was true of julia who also very generously spent a lot of time with me telling me about her life as an africanamerican woman who grew up at the time she did and was a nurse and the midwife for many years, and would tell those tales. That spell that she knew how to cast that now and alice i would say were masters of the art, where you almost forget where you are for a minute and resurface and remember. For me it was a way to be out in the world, even when it really wasnt. Theres a little bit of faith and hope involved in such a solitary process that the time would come. And how remarkable it is to be here doing that with you tonight. It is such a gift that they both shared with me, and i want to be just, to share that gift with all of you. There were stories that they didnt want to share, and as i mentioned in the book a lot of times share the feelings of a friend or relative who was part of the story that they shared but not for the book. And yet there were so many i think that they delighted in telling and were ready to share. Just such a gift they gave me that im so glad to be sharing with all of you now. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Very thoughtful. A wonderful moment, maybe one of the most wonderful moment, but one of the many wonderful moments, that fascinated me was the road trip you and nelle took to new jersey. Would you tell us a little bit about that long road trip . With pleasure. I was going while i was living in monroeville, i had a car that their good friend tom, the you to call in allegedly semiretired minister, methodist minister. Yet gone with me to buy a car that he dubbed old blue because i think all cars in the part of the world need anything if they possibly can have one, so that became old blue. I was going to be driving old blue from monroeville to Princeton Junction new jersey, not terribly far from new york where nelle would be returning before long there is going to visit friends and then went on to chicago. So she came along as my passenger. She didnt fly, and the train which is to go to evergreen alabama, i know some of you are familiar with evergreen, no longer went to edge close. So we decided, she decided she would join me on this trip. Well, i decided i needed to be prepared for any contingency. So i got water bottles. I got orange traffic cones. I joined aaa, and i wondered if i should get the site to put on my car, like a taxi in your account but this one would say please drive carefully, National Treasure on board. [laughter] and didnt want to in a didnt want to edge to the nation if anything happened on that drive. But we had other than me getting a ride in their driveway before we were two minutes on the road, i think her comment was trying to remember exactly way to get off to a good start, something along those lines. We ended up having a smooth trip, and can you imagine a better person than to be drinking more coffee and talking about the country going by our windows as we drove. I remember thinking all those years she took the train, that the country hadnt seen much of our public, harper lee had seen a lot of the country. She did like to travel. Took the train to los angeles when i was living in monroeville, for a Library Fundraiser that i believe at that point gregory pecks widow was involved in, and that support of library that was one of the reasons i first got to know them, and her friendship i think with the pax was reason enough to take a train from new york to los angeles and then go from there to eventually make a way to alabama. When nelle, when she wanted to talk off the record, like she mentioned the towns biggest gossip, or other areas that might be extremely sensitive, what was your reaction as a reporter when nelle said this is off the record, dont write that . That was absolutely what i would respect, and there may be people here i think to of had the privilege of spending time with her and now she has kind of a gesture with her index finger when shes making a point. When i was spending time with her she would sometimes say, now, thats off the record. Dont include that in the book. Or would say, now you put that in there. Certain stories that she hoped i would share. So my feeling was of course, that i wanted to respect her wishes and made note of those things. But i would say they were more candid than it might have predicted, but did have a sense sort of the burden of fame which clearly harper lee and alice lee as well as someone who was involved with her affairs all those years felt personally and didnt feel it needed to extend to friends and relatives who hadnt signed up for that any more than necessary. A lot of times i think these were stories that sort of appreciation of human foibles, of the excesses of people of the characters in a small town. But they didnt want to be the source of hurt feelings, and so those were once that i didnt share. I knew that. I wanted you to share that with the audience, and while on that subject before we get to these questions, holy mackerel, this is a smart bunch of folks. These are incredible. Im embarrassed. These are a lot better than mine. Before we get into these, for the doubters and naysayers im going to take personal privilege, there was a witness to one of the dinners that you write about, and she is a close friend of nelle, a former neighbor for much longer than you were neighbor. And weve had several conversations about you, about your book, and she should with me and i got her permission to mention this, bad you were just the smartest person and the greatest sense of humor, and that you and nelle cut up like all the old friends. And you said i could tell that. Wave, julie. There she is. Hello. I havent seen you since that night many years ago. Its so great to see you. I was thinking that one thing about spending time with nelle harper and with alice, they are so witty. A kind of raise the game of everybody at the table in a sense i think he wanted to have good stories to share yourself. There was a lot of laughter at those table. As i recall there was quite a bit that night, and i believe her phrase was, i have a yankee for you. They were from summer out of 10, perhaps north of the masondixon line was also with us that eating. She was also concerned that most of my friends there were in their 80s and 90s, some in their 70s, which is sounding younger and younger to me all the time. But that there werent as many young people for me to spend time with, and so that night was a chance i think to do that as well. Yeah, that was great fun. Nice to see you. Thank you for coming, judy. My last request for you before we get into this, it would be a daydream for the audience. You mentioned in the book the possibilities of what it would be like to have on our bookshelves if Nelle Harper Lee had written a few more books and some of the occasions that you were with her that it seemed like she ought to have written a book about race, about community, about the minister who murdered for insurance money. And id like for you to touch him that if he would, and the evening that you ran across the east asian immigrants and nelles thoughts. So thats all bunch of things for you to cover we get into this committee would. I will start with the last one and you can bring me back if i take a side trip or two. The evening i believe youre referring to was a dinner at a Mexican Restaurant in monroeville to those of you spend time there know that the Dining Options as nelle said are somewhat limited. There are some wonderful places but it into being a matter of welcome to go to davids catfish house tonight on bradleys south 40 . And so we have decided on a lark to try a Mexican Restaurant that was sort of on the outskirts of town. And when we were there that werent too many people at the restaurant but it was a very long table of people who were of indian origin, the east asian origin that nelle so fascinated by. It was generations of this extended family, and more i think, they were people primarily who ran mo tells him that larger area motels pick summit, recently. Some event in the part of the state a long time. She was just so interested in that as a subculture, and how did it work and how did this families interact and how did it work when people were starting with nothing that they were able to get a foothold economically and socially . And i have very few practical skills i will say, ive a terrible sense of direction. Im not a cook, but i do speak spanish. And so that was an evening when i was able to help with something practical which was she one to ask the waitress who was still learning english more about those families. So there i was asking a waitress from mexico about the families from india, and translating for nelle who so interested and animated. I think i was captivated by how social classes work and how people interact and what changes and what doesnt. And full of questions. Kept apologizing and then kept right on asking the question the waitress more questions about how all that work. I did have a pang that evening that i would selfishly love to read the book that she could write about that part of the experience in this part of alabama, or conversely there was a possible Death Penalty case in monroeville after the murder of a physician and his wife, terribly sad case where their son killed his parents and ended up committing suicide before this became, before it went to trial, but it looked like it would be a Death Penalty case. So we spent time talking about that issue. There were other petitions were just couldnt help thinking how much people would like to know what she thought about that, and the stories she could tell. And i felt how much she came to life a lot of times talking about those kinds of things. And about the stories that tell you more about issues than anything else. Although of course that was her decision, and only she knew what was the right thing for her to do and why. But i have to say there are times i pictured a small, or large, but at least some volumes that mightve been written had she chosen to continue publishing after she did. Those were very thoughtprovoking, and i have reread them several times and we can all daydream what if. I can remember nelle harper telling me not too long after i moved there i think, she was talking about law school which she had attended, and that the dry technicalities to shut what were words . Of law school, law practice didnt interest her but the human stories did, and the drama of the trials. I think thats one reason it was so interesting to know her, and alice finchley, because alice was a master of detail and the dry technicalities, and certainly have the same appreciation i think for the human stories behind them but also was very patient in dealing with all of the methodical aspects of doing that job. Well, were not going to be able to get to these several hundred but we will go through as many as we can. Right off the bat, cant wait to hear your answers. Wish i thought of this. Someone who didnt sign their name but said, i think the book about alice would be interesting. Would she be open to that, and are you interested in pursuing that . My goodness. Alice is as worthy as many books when i first moved down there, friends of theirs to people who dont know their ancestors dont believe us when we say that alice, miss alice issues known around town, is every bit as remarkable in her own way. And original. As nelle harper. And that certainly was my experience as well from the start. So i turn to the adjective is but to your specific question, whoever had that, but i would say, just as nelle harper had a singular perspective really on what it meant to write the book that she did and didnt have the response that she did all these years, alice lee was in a singular position in a lot of ways and would was keeper of the family history. And the one of the things we wanted to do was preserve as many of those stories as she was able to sure and that she had time to share. I was ginger in the beginning about the question of a lot of their friends were pleased that she was willing to record a lot of the family stories that probably would go with her when she died if she didnt. She just had a memory, and now its 102. Practiced law until she was 100, that nobody else had. So there was a sense of urgency not only on her part but on that of the other people who they encouraged her to speak with me. But they were much more matter of fact about it. Alice used to say to me, they gave me as i much regularly. One was to visit a lot of different churches in the area, to visit why churches and black churches and baptist and methodist and pentecostal, and the break with version of all of those that develop over time, and other denominations. But they also wanted me to speak with some of the people who ive known their family, maybe were a little us prone to embellishment, shall we say, then some of the people who have shared stories publicly about the lee family over the years. And so alice would say, i want you to talk to soandso. Do that early on while he still has his marbles. Just matter of fact. [laughter] and nelles, theres a wonderful photograph of her that ran as the lead to photograph in my newspaper story we see a certain intensity in her eyes, that gays saying you talk to soandso while they are still above ground. And so the chance to preserve those stories i think was one of the most meaningful parts of this for me. This is a tough question. I cant wait to hear your answer. You may give up. The question is, if you had to describe harper lee in just one word, what would it be . Oh, my goodness. Original. I think, she wrote a book with such universal appeal but one of the reasons i think those characters have captivated so may people in so many countries for so many years is their original. Something universal about those characters and yet they are also each of them real individuals. And i would say the same of nelle. Theres such a spark. Theres a phrase in to kill a mockingbird about the spark a fresh adventure in someones eyes. In the book it was referenced that leaving someones eyes, but there was so much true of her and of alice lee. Part of what made it, it always fails, there was something predictable in the good sense of the word i would say about a lot of what they shared with me as i got to know them better and spent so much time with them. But there was also always something original. I wasnt quite sure what you would have to say about something, and that made for such fun. This next question says, you won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism and, of course, ms. A lady one for literature. Are there any traits you believe most Pulitzer Prize winners share . First of all, i would make the distinction, every large distinction that, of course, she won the Pulitzer Prize for the beautiful novel. I was part of a large team of reporters that work on a series called gateway to gridlock about oa or airport ohare airport. This was very much a team effort and so i would make that distinction. I was one of many. Fascinating project to work on. I think with nelle, nelle and others ive met including a woman i described in the book a friend, you know, there is a feeling of doing something that matter to you that had nothing to do with simply the need to make a living, although certainly thats always a consideration in any profession. But i sense of purpose that i think gave meaning to the lives of the people i know who have done that work and to the projects, a sense of it being about something more. And i will just mention briefly. A friend of mine from the Chicago Tribune named julia keller want to go to price in 2005 for a series that was really about the randomness of fate. And recreated a tornado that swept through a small town in illinois, and the randomness of fate in part was that this is one of those tornadoes we know too well in the midwest that has very little warning. And in the town people who somewhat randomly turned right on one side of main street and went into a tavern on one side survived, those who happened to turn left and went into the other didnt. It just seemed so random. For a series beautifully recorded what it was like to be in that town when that happened, but also how people came to terms with that part of that experience. And she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for feature writing. That was, i was living in monroeville at that time. I was in chicago for some doctors appointments to see my rheumatologist. But when that was announced i believe that was in april. I was there and we had a party for her at my apartment. I lived not too far still from the Chicago Tribune. So nelle got a kick out of the story that i told about ordering a cake to celebrate this achievement from a fancier bakery than ive ever ordered from. The actual delivered to my door. I did not that was the concept until the told me they would do that. But julia keller, should often get julie sometimes, its not so i told the person, and i was recounting this to nelle, when i return to monroeville not long after this, i yet another table, i told the people who ride on the top of the cake that i would like it to say congratulations julia Pulitzer Prize 2005 at but i said, now julia sometimes gets julie. Could you please be sure that you know it with an a. Could you read back to me. I want to make sure he was understanding the better than i was able to understand him during that conversation on the phone. And he said what an honor. Thats marvelous julio we have it, no worries. Julia. Right for a bunch of people before the chicago were coming over to celebrate. That cake was delivered and as i told nelle, i picked up the lid and my heart sank. Because it said, it did say congratulations julia, but then it said poet surprise 2005. [laughter] which, of course, is something we still call for all these years later, and it is quite lyrical so i think its an appropriate name. But nelle got such a kick out of that story. I shared that at the home of a mutual friend. But also i think what of the things i still respect about both in as they were talking about their experience was the real respect for achievement as opposed to simply celebrity for its own sake or data think the pulitzer was meaningful, naturally for her comment something that clearly was about achievement and not about saying. And also was something that their father lived to see her receive, and i know that gave it an extra level of meaning us as well. He died unfortunately before the movie came out, but lived to see that achievement and that was something that all those years later, you know, there was still a little spark of pride in that achievement when we spoke about it and when i told her about my friend, the poet surprise spin i noticed several poets in the audience so you need to create poet surprise that would be worthy. This is one i dont know if you will answer, but are you planning i choose to say no comment. No, you will answer this but are you planning to attend your College Reunion next year . Oh, my goodness. Is there a georgetown person in this audience . Hello. I graduated the short answer is yes, i would love to. I missed the last one because i was in the hospital in transixteen with some lupus problems and heard about it from a friend by phone, and would love to. I would also add that although my older friends in monroeville rolled her eyes at the thought that i know what its like to be getting older. Im 51 now. My classmate as a freshman at georgetown was Patrick Ewing who of course went on to play for the new york knicks. Imagine when i was to feeling pretty young, listening to the commentators with it, and there goes for Patrick Ewing hobbling on those knees. Hes an old man now. We were the class of 85, so i would love to return. Okay. Hope that answers your question. We discussed this earlier in the afternoon. Tell us a tale, you didnt tell in the book. Oh, my goodness. Did you have one particular in mind . No. These are my questions. All these are from these folks out here. Boy, that was one of the painful things. I try to select the stories that were typical of my experience that would in that category of plot a chair and listen to their stories. One of the ones that ive touched on in the book but didnt write as much about as i would have liked to was this and alice got a mention, their mothers sister who writes one Nelle Harper Lee and one alice, had a playful sense of language that was such fun. And it was a part of looking at the world really. And so they would have and alice isms that they would bring up every now and then. One of my favorites was the term having been through some of the weather, having a bit of whether today was another expression i remember when the trees were ready to blow down. It was and alice is term she had created for whether that was a cross between a cyclone and a typhoon. I think there were some amusement on both of the sisters part that she had gotten a digital clock, i think was also for me with heart medication perhaps and never could quite get it straight that this was not a digitalice clock telling the time to get such affection for its for some of the other relatives that we talked about. Mr. Nash every now and then, nelle harper would say im driving like mr. Nash. Mr. Nash was married i believe to their and kitty who herself refer to them as mr. Nash, a bit of a more formal generation. And mr. Nash would save money by driving rather slowly and conserving gas. So if someone, including nelle harper herself, was driving a little bit slowly that day they were driving like mr. Nash. And i dont have a car in chicago. Want to love about living in Downtown Chicago is not needing a car, but if im home in wisconsin and driving a car someplace and go a little bit slowly, i think to myself, well, im driving like mr. Nash. That makes me think of harper itself as the name. And i think some of you would be familiar with this, but maybe not most. Whenever i hear that beckons in england for example, have a daughter, Victoria Beckham and her soccer star husband, David Beckham fro, they have a littlel named harper, or all the other many children, celebrities or not that are named harper. I think about that name came to be and that it really was a thing of thanks to an otherwise forgotten i believe salmon pediatrician who was able to come up with a formula that the third of the lee sisters, as a baby she is unable to adjust formula and his pediatrician finally after they had gone around taround of the doctors ay were desperately worried that louise lee as an infinite wouldnt survive if she could begin digesting formula. They came across a selma pediatrician by the name of dr. William harper, and 10 years later louise lee was 10 years older than nelle harper more or less, when one Nelle Harper Lee came into the world in an upstairs bedroom in their old house on alabama avenue. That name was a thanks in part to this pediatrician who im sure could not imagine would know his name was, yeah, in the streets of london and all kinds of places that he couldnt imagine being a part of. That was another nugget that was wonderful to read in your book, that is what i dont know that we knew. We will take a couple more than the old clock on the wall is taking. Taking. Did either nelle or alice address the Truman Capote issues concerning the probability that he wrote to kill a mockingbird . All, yes, just a wee bit. [laughter] and i think Kathryn Tucker windham in the wonderful what a treasure and i felt she so captured nelle harper and also alice in a couple of those stories, that i spent all that time with. Im sorry, tell me im off on a mental sidetrip. About nelle or alice addressing that Truman Capote might have written a speech yes. I think allison thats the biggest lie ever told. And it was a source of consternation as Kathryn Tucker windham mentioned in those comments. There cannot be any credence put to the theory. There might be some question as to how much nelle harper unassisted anyway human capote perhaps more than she wants explicitly thanked, for example, in cold blood where she went to kansas with him, when to kill a mockingbird was there with a publisher, hadnt yet come out although she had finished it. As those of you who watch those movies are know about their history, she went to kansas and helped him research these murders that have taken place in a farmhouse there. And i dont know about the writing of the book but i do know how helpful it was to him to have someone who so easily could put people at ease in that small town. He was such a character i think, and it was helpful to him to have someone who people felt they knew i think after not talking to her for all that long, and really was quite a help i think in the researching of in cold blood. She also told me that incidentally that was i think already at that point in his career there was some sense that maybe he was floundering a bit. I know she said she felt this was a good and serious project that he could pursue and she wanted to be of help to him. And i think certainly was, and shared as well that fascination for criminal justice for the stories of a crime like that, and then what happens as more is found out about the crimes and criminals, and in cold blood became really i think one of the early examples of what he called a nonfiction novel of a narrative that he was attempting to tell in a novelistic fashion, but ideally sticking to what they had learned in their research about what truly have happened in that case. Thank you. This might take the rest of the evening. What things did you find inspired harper lee . She had such an appreciation for how hard people work, i think especially some of the new the depression and, of course, captured it into such an iconic way in to kill a mockingbird, was always impressed whatever summers background, whenever somebodys family history, with people who have the perseverance to work hard. A lot of times for not very much pay, provide for families. It was, i think there were values from their father that they both talked about that you see in that boat, that you see in the way they lived. And that was one of the ones that should that i think was most striking in my conversations with them. That appreciation of how hard it was for a lot of families not only in the depression but at the time i was living in monroeville, and respect for the people who found a way it they had the opportunity to provide for a family into persevere over time. And i think an appreciation at all like a lot of families in the depression they certainly knew hardship. They knew people who live so close to the margin, to how much a family can get by in a year, and an appreciation of how many people managed to do that in such difficult circumstances. And perhaps some feeling they both discussed with me in their own ways, but there was a commonality of concern that may be what a lot of us now would consider what you need to get by is inflated, that the necessities, theres a difference between need and want. And it may be a problem of an affluent, and a technologically advanced country that want can begin to seem like you need. And that put put pressures on pe that maybe they dont have to have. Well, as we are just about to run out of time, before we did it do and have as little decent business about this little book bid ado do you have any parting remarks for these folks here in alabama, or the ones have come from kansas city and florida and tennessee and mississippi . Well, on a lighter note all i will say in the interest of being able to leave the theater physically impact is that i did write roll tide in a book in washington a few days ago [laughter] but it was only because [applause] let me add. Fic any orange and blue out there, it was only because a very nice gentleman who had written that, looked at me and said, this is a gift. And i did have to mention to him that good friends of the leaves in monroeville who ha has a sonn companies my honorary brother. Choice introduces he is my sister. Is a man in his 40 who has down syndrome and had a special friendship with nelle harper always. He didnt want anything from her other than her friendship and her playful sense of fun, which he most definitely had. And kenny might be, his name is kenny croft and hes a him so he wont mind me mentioning his name. Kenny croft might be the world truly, no hyperbole, biggest auburn fan. Is a collection of memorabilia that people have brought to him. Every tshirt, mug, et cetera, known to man. Theres a Christmas Tree that has auburn ornaments on it. Any has collected. And so the balance my roll tide in the book in washington i will also say that i did from my hotel room in new york yell over the line to kenny, war eagles. [laughter] [applause] just about even stephen. We probably best to leave that subject at this time. On behalf, before we have the drawings while most of the audience is under good mood, we appreciate your taking time out to come to birmingham, alabama. We loved it, but many of us did not have a preconceived notion that you, the book youre writing about Nelle Harper Lee. You did it in a marvelous manner and in a respectful manner. I feel much better having read it, and thank you for your gift to the literary world. Thanks to penguin press. And before we thank all of you for coming, somebody is really going to be happy, but i wanted before she draws the name and before everybodys mad because she didnt draw yours, lets tell this young lady how much we appreciate her. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you. It wow. That if a georgetown person wins a drunken it will be mighty suspect. I want you to know how to pick this state because these are sure to bike seat numbers. So my cousin, i am sorry. I will not look and i will pull from the middle. Poll from the middle. Okay. Well, put your glasses on. First, first, read the row. Spin we will do this with some drama. Appropriate to a theater. And the row that has the winner is the row would be j. And seat number . Are you ready . Row trying to seat 26. [applause] this is for you row j seat 26. I cant see. Is that my cousin . [laughter] there you are. And your name is . Pam. Enjoy your book. [applause] in the booth assistance our goodnight, which he killed these microphones so you wont hear us talking . Thank you so much for coming. We appreciate it. Please, were going to get her back for that second book. [applause] thank you so much, everybody. A pleasure spending time with you. [inaudible conversations] booktv is on twitter