Since you've pondered the whereabouts of Nelle Harper Lee following my last blog, I think I may have the answer.  She is still living in Monroeville, Alabama.  She is eighty-two years old and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom less than one year ago.  For years, Ms. Lee split time between her apartment in New York and the home of her sister, Alice, in Monroeville.
    She did not like the limelight thrust upon her by the success of To Kill a Mockingbird, and avoided almost all interviews after the initial flurry of publicity around the release of the screenplay adaptation of the novel in 1962.  She has remained active within her community and in the Methodist Church, but overall has lived a very private life since the early 1960's.    
    Ms. Lee worked on two other projects: a novel entitled, The Long Goodbye,  which she simply filed away and never published, and an also unpublished nonfiction work about an Alabama serial killer, called The Reverend.  Other than a few articles published in the 1960's and a letter published in O in July of 1006, Ms. Lee has not published anything further.  A point could be made that later efforts at publication may have detracted from the unparalleled standing of Ms. Lee as the preeminent author of one of America's most significant social commentaries and for perhaps setting the finest example in modern day American Literature of pitch-perfect characterization.
    Furthermore, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 was a broad exclamation point which came at the very beginning of her career, and may have helped her to push back from her typewriter far earlier than the rest of us would have liked.  Nelle had already proved to herself all she needed to know—and like flan after filet mignon, that must have been enough.