Birmingham (Alabama), Oct 27 (AP) A batch of letters handwritten by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee has soldfor more than USD 12,000.
A statement from the Los Angeles-based Nate D. SandersAuctions says 38 letters from the deceased novelist to friendFelic Itzkoff went for USD 12,500 in a sale held yesterdaynight.
The letters span the period from December 2005 to May2010 and include a note written on January 20, 2009, the dayBarack Obama was inaugurated as the nation's first blackpresident.
The auction company says other letters talked about Lee'sSouthern heritage; her father; and Christianity and herapparent atheism.
Lee died in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, inFebruary 2016 about seven months after publishing "Go Set aWatchman," a companion book to her Pulitzer Prize-winningnovel.
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