Kathy Hogan Trocheck’s byline was a staple in the _Atlanta Journal-Constitution_ in the 1980s. She left the AJC to write fiction full-time in 1991, and has authored a number of best-selling

books under the penname “Mary Kay Andrews.” Trocheck says Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” influenced her own style, which highlights a Southern flavor. In July, Harper Lee will release

the book “Go Set a Watchman,” a manuscript Lee sat aside to write “Mockingbird.” On the Wednesday edition of “A Closer Look with Rose Scott and Denis O’Hayer,” WABE’s Denis O’Hayer and Jim

Burress interviewed Trocheck about Lee’s influence on her own work.An interview with Kathy Hogan Trocheck