The Famous Friends of Harper Lee and Cecil Day-Lewis
Recognizing the birthdays, and literary friendships, of Lee and Day-Lewis
We’ve talked before about literary friendships. There was the time when Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville were friends, and Maya Angelou and James Baldwin were close for years.
And Harper Lee and Cecil Day-Lewis had famous literary friends, too. In Lee’s case, the relationship started as a child, while Day-Lewis’s connection came at the end of his…