By Associated Press - Monday, April 4, 2016

BUIES CREEK, N.C. (AP) - The friend who delivered the eulogy at the memorial service for author Harper Lee and who is writing a book about her is speaking this week at Campbell University.

Wayne Flynt delivers a lecture Monday evening in Butler Chapel about Lee and what others can learn from small Southern towns about theology, history, literature and race.

Flynt will have a “public conversation” Tuesday evening with J. Bradley Creed, the new president of Campbell University.

Flynt is professor emeritus of history at Auburn University. He says he’s writing a book about Lee, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author who wrote the American classic “To Kill A Mockingbird.” He says the book should be finished by the end of the year.

Lee died in February at the age of 89.

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