Harper Lee: I'm glad To Kill A Mockingbird wasn't published during the YA rush

A great read on Flavorwire, touching on the concern that books pegged in the YA genre won't make it to a wider and more adult audience.

Most telling is a quote from the new (unauthorized) biography of Harper Lee, in which she says she "felt lucky that To Kill a Mockinbird was published when it was. Much later, and it might have been classified as young adult fiction and never reaching the audience, and all the adults, it did."

As a YA author, I think the concern is there but that with most adult readers (apart from Ruth Graham, of course) happy to delve into the YA arena, I think the really good, cross-over novels will always make it into the mainstream.