Legendary Auburn coach and Opelika area hunting guide Pat Dye isn’t much of a reader by his own admission. (In his words, he don’t know “nothing about no damned literature.”) But per the War Eagle Reader’s ongoing mashup of Dye remembrances called “The Patchwork Pat Dye,” he does have something most literati would chew their left arm off to get: letters from Harper Lee, the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Harper Lee wrote 10 love letters to Pat Dye
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What is known is that the coach and the author struck up a late-life friendship and correspondence for sure. What happened besides that, um, is Dye’s and Dye’s alone to speculate since Lee is not exactly forthcoming with public comments, and because we just like people’s imaginations to run wild for themselves. Quote:
“No,” he tells the two, “I don’t know where I put the thing.” He rummages through drawers as he talks. “But I do got 10 love letters from her (Lee.)”
Love letters?
“Yeah, love letters.” He pauses. “Nancy says I turned her.”
Neither is exactly sure what he meant by that statement.
Neither are we, Pat. But a man whose pants are so magical they walk into lake bottoms by themselves is capable of anything, dear reader.
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