Still Simple

February 30, 1961

I apologize for not updating in so long...

I've just so busy ever since Mockingbird was published. Let me tell you, the hoping worked! People immediately loved the book, and it's now a bestseller! And it gets better: a producer has been talking with me, and he wants to create a motion picture of the book! I can't believe anyone would think so much of a little story written by a simple Southern woman. One day I'm having coffee paid for by the Browns, pounding away at a typewriter, the next I'm picking up a Pulitzer Prize? It's surreal! I was so afraid before of receiving nothing but criticism and insults, but now that Mockingbird is so huge, it's actually almost as scary.

Thank you all so much for your support and well wishes throughout this whole thing.

me and my film producer (wow!)

-Harper