Today, the USPS introduced its latest stamp from their Hollywood Legends Collection and it just so happens to be one Atticus Finch. Okay, actually it is Gregory Peck, but the image of the stamp is him portraying his most popular character on the silver screen, Atticus Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird. The movie stands as one of the few in history that did justice to the original book.We take this as a good omen with this the year our book, Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship comes out (September 20 from William Morrow). And it comes a day before our first public appearance pertaining to the book. This weekend we'll be down in Newburyport for the Newburyport Literary Festival to discuss our story.
With a field of 80 writers and poets, there will be many notable personalities on hand. We're thrilled to be included in that group and we'll be appearing at Jabberwocky Bookshop on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Just before us is Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of the Dante Club; and after us is Frank Schaeffer, another bestselling author.
Hi Tom - Atticus is looking particularly debonair and smart in that photo.
ReplyDeleteI see a lot of Gregory Peck in Atticus. Or maybe I should say - I see a lot of Atticus in Gregory Peck ;)
ReplyDeleteI love Gregory Peck!
/Marcia