what did you learn about harper lee and her reasons? >> well, i was fortunate enough to get great access to two very close friends of her. a new york city couple who gave their friend, harper lee, money. they remain very, very close dear friends to this day. the other person i was also very privileged and fortunate to talk to was alice finch, harper lee's older sister. alice is one of the first women in alabama who was ever admitted to the bar. she -- at 99 she's the oldest practicing attorney in the state. she continues to practice every day, and she hopes to celebrate her 100th birthday in september at her law desk. she was quite a character and told me quite a bit about how the lee girls were raised. and her answer to that question is, she quoted her sister saying, she couldn't top what she had done. she had nowhere to go but down. and i think the combination of this kind of overwhelming thing, the somewhat autobiographical nature of what was written about and not to disappoint yourself let alone the other people out there waiting fo

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a pulitzer prize is awarded to her early for "to kill a mockingbird -- to harker early -- harper lee for "to kill a mockingbird." for many of us, that play and the title song stirred memories of a magical time in america, a time when the torch is passed to a new generation, when idealism became a reality. was that wonderful play closes, king arthur nights a young boy and tells him to pass on the story of camelot to future generations. these were president kennedy's favorite lines and the play. do not let it be forgotten once there was a spot that was known as camelot. we have the rare opportunity to welcome one of the knights of the round table and to pass on to future generations a bright moment in the media, on moment occurred 50 years ago, when the young chairman of the federal communications commission spoke about the potential of television. tonight the torch is symbolically path to the chairman and to all of us lucky enough to be in this room as well as to those listening on computers and mobile devices. this is going to be a night to remember. it is my pleasure to introduce th

the illustrated weekly published in new yoristt frank was lee, harper's weekly and several others send war artisper' out a others to the front. they generally did what photat.raphers did and that was stay out of the way. going through the air in the o.anner craig described final day of gettysburg it was not a great idea to have your head buried in the sketchbook or under a photographer's hood. that they did create a remarkable record of camp life and the aftereffects of battime and they brought the war visibly of 2 people, the photographer and the artists. they were an extraordinary bunch. and i would suppose just leave it at the fact that homer, alone among them, evolved into a great american artist and there will be a museum exhibition in washington and the metropolitan museum between 2012, and 2013 on the art of the civil wang a ne lobur at photat.raphy and paintg as it much tours and goes from news medium to ier aressionisti medium and history medium. >> if you want to learn more about this you need to read two of harold's 218 books, the union s the age and the confederate i. >> wh

. >> henry: ella harper is the inspiration for the book that we are going to be talking about. she is the daughter of leecatherine harper wrote about her pregnancy discovering motherhood this is the combination of a memoir and a collection of a journey. it is a bit of a different book. and have you read this? >> no. >> it is good >> henry: you talk about changes that i don't remember reading about and my wife was pregnant. >> correct. and changes i do not remember when i was pregnant. when i got pregnant things changed very quickly. nobody told me how to transform with this was going to be patrick physically, emotionally, and transformative lee. intellectually. >> i was an academic, a writer, and it was transformative. and i started investigating my own pregnancy while i was pregnant. it seems like your internal body organs get a range, blood, everything. >> henry: perceptions that did not come out in your research? >> your perception of time? >> yes! the physical changes were early warnings for the promotional physical and physiological changes. because i was so sick with morning sickness i was grounded