On a pleasant evening in the spring of 1963, the world's most famous author felt inspired to write. The pages that came from her typewriter would be saved for decades with a note in blue ink: “Wonderful letter from Nelle Harper Lee.”
It had been three years since the publication of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and several months since the release of the movie adaptation, when the young Pulitzer Prize winner found herself preoccupied with another deeply Southern topic.
At the moment when it must have felt like everyone in her life was waiting to read anything else she had written, Harper Lee finally had something to write about: the Alabama Crimson Tide football team.
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