All this fuss about the book "to Kill a Mocking Bird", a novel I've never read, a film I've never seen, and probably never will.
An allegation I once read somewhere which doesn't seem to have made much impact - Ms. Harper Lee didn't write the book, it was the work of her friend Truman Capote, who gave it to her to publish under her name. If true, it would explain why Ms. Lee has never written another book.
The main weakness with this claim is the idea of Capote keeping his mouth shut about it all those years. Who could believe that?

If you read an interview with one of those "world-famous nonentities" who dominate our media, and they claim that their favourite book is "To Kill a Mocking Bird", you know that they haven't read a book since leaving school. I believe it was a set work at one time. The same is true of "Lord of the Flies" for slightly older nonentities.