In her new book, “The Mockingbird Next Door,” Chicago journalist and author Marja Mills tells of the friendship she forged with “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee and her sister, Alice, in Monroeville, Alabama. Mills will be joined in conversation by Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich.

Refresh yourself on Lee's life outside the spotlight with Mills's intriguing 2002 Chicago Tribune feature story, "A Life Apart."

"The Mockingbird Next Door" is Mills's first book.

$15 in advance, $17 at the door, 6 p.m., Tribune Tower, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago

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