George Landegger is an industrialist and entrepreneur, who spent most of his career as an executive in the forest products industry.


He has always had a deep love for the State of Alabama, fueled in part by his friendship with the late author Harper Lee, an Alabama native whose most famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was set in a fictionalized version of her hometown, Monroeville.


The Pulitzer Prize winning author was an intensely private person, and during her lifetime her friends scrupulously protected her desire for privacy. But with her death in early 2016 at the age of eighty-nine, they are no longer bound by any such restrictions and are doing what they can to set the record straight. “We are free at last,” George Landegger said, “to speak about her as she deserves.”


He said that, in her retirement years, Harper Lee chose to spend her remaining time in a small care home on the outskirts of Monroeville. “It was a very nice home where a man would come every night and play the piano, and there was a certain social life,” he said.


Harper Lee’s reputation as an author has rested largely on her first published novel. Published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird became a sensational best seller and made its author wealthy beyond her dreams. She was also a childhood friend of Truman Capote who made significant contributions to In Cold Blood, his so-called “non fiction novel” that became his most famous work. Lee traveled with Capote to rural Kansas to help him research the true-crime book.


She later attempted a crime-based nonfiction book of her own, but abandoned it before completion. So it was a publishing sensation when a previously unknown Harper Lee novel, Go Set a Watchman, appeared in the summer of 2015. There were rumors that Lee was by then so ill that she could not possibly have agreed to publish that book, which was written before To Kill a Mockingbird but had some of the same characters and themes. Some believed that her lawyer, Tonja Carter, pressured Harper Lee into publishing it, but George Landegger dismisses those rumors outright. “Tonja was accused of manipulating Nelle,” he said, referring to Lee by her real first name. “But Nelle could not be manipulated.”


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