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One of the well-known names of the literary world, Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. While she passed away in February 2016, the American novelist gave some rich literary texts that will remain with us for a lifetime. Lee is famously known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which also went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Despite just publishing two books, Lee received various honours and accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. On her 94th birth anniversary, here’s…

HBO is developing an OTT adaptation of Indian Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry’s 1996 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, “A Fine Balance”, with Ritesh Batra, director of the much-acclaimed Irrfan Khan-starrer, “The Lunchbox”, helming the project.The seven-part web series, reports ‘Variety’, is being produced by Blueprint Pictures, which steered “A Very British Scandal” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, and Northwood Entertainment, which was behind “Anne With An E”. It will be shot in India from early June to…

After playing the role of Marvel superhero Iron Man for more than a decade, Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr is stepping into the role of a writer. The 57-year-old actor will be releasing his first book titled: Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite At A Time. As the title suggests, Robert will be advocating environmentally sustainable food choices through his book.According to a report by Deadline, the actor has teamed with bestselling environmental author Thomas Kostigen for his next project. The report added…

In a historic moment, Geetanjali Shree became the first Indian author to get her work shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. The Hindi novel, Ret Samadhi has been translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell. Shree is no stranger to literary stardom. Her previous novels such as Mai and Khali Jagah have been translated into different languages as well. In an interview with News18, the 64-year-old talks about the importance of languages in a person’s consciousness and why she finds it abhorring when…

Part of the Future of Work issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Harriet Krzykowski was a mental health aide in a South Florida correctional facility, making $12 per hour, when she learned of the death of Darren Rainey. Rainey was a mentally ill man who had been incarcerated at the prison where she worked, and prison guards had killed him. The details were particularly horrifying. The guards responsible had…

Twitter has reportedly modified the way embedded tweets are rendered, causing certain tweets to disappear on external websites. While Twitter previously displayed tweets embedded on websites even after they had been deleted, the company appears to have changed the way that these tweets are displayed, hiding them after the author deletes them. Instead of displaying the content of an embedded tweet after deletion, Twitter now displays a blank box on external websites — recently confirmed to be an intentional change by a…