"TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" AUTHOR HARPER LEE SUES FOR ROYALTIES: Client Update

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Eighty-seven-year-old Harper Lee, author of "To Kill A Mockingbird", one of the most famous and noted trial novels ever written, is suing her former literary agent, Samuel Pinkus, and his wife, a lawyer, for essentially theft of her royalties and commissions from sales of the book.

Ms. lee, who resides in an assisted living facility and has failing eyesight and hearing, alleges in her civil suit that literary agent Pinkus and his lawyer wife took advantage of her age and infirmity to deprive her of royalties from the great novel.  The book, "To Kill A Mockingbird", has sold over 30 million copies since its first printing in 1960.

Author Harper Lee is a native of Monroeville, Alabama and in 2007 was recovering from a stroke when she says she was duped into signing away her royalties from the book to Pinkus.

Now she is suing Pinkus and others, contending in a federal complaint filed in Manhattan last week that she signed a document transferring her rights to a company controlled by Pinkus without understanding what she was doing.  The suit seeks forfeiture of monies obtained by Pinkus.

[www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-03/ "Harper Lee Sues Literary Agent Over 'Mockingbird' Royalties"; www.abajournal.com/news/article/ "Author Harper Lee Sues, Says Agent Tricked Her Into Signing Over 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Royalties]

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