To Know a Mockingbird is the first biography in Russian of the American writer Harper Lee, a mystery author who gave the world two novels: To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. This book is a biography of a writer who stopped giving interviews in 1964. It was only in 2001 that Lee made an exception for Chicago Tribune journalist Marya Mills... and became friends with her. So, with the blessing of the great writer, Marya moved into the house next door and spent the next eighteen months communicating with her sisters, Nell and Alice Lee. Mills' book will tell the true story of a leisurely and magical life in the city that forever became the city of Atticus Finch, the story of Lee's friendship and breakup with Truman Capote, the reclusiveness of the great "writer of one novel" and her special subtle humor.