Author Lee buried in Ala.

On a day when mockingbirds sang outside the courthouse that inspired her classic American novel, author Harper Lee was laid to rest in a private ceremony. A few dozen people who comprised Lee’s intimate circle gathered Saturday at a church in the small Alabama town of Monroeville, which the author used as a model for Maycomb, the setting of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’’ Lee died Friday at age 89. Her friend, history professor Wayne Flynt, eulogized her in a ceremony at First United Methodist Church. Afterward, her casket was taken by hearse to an adjacent cemetery where her parents, A.C. Lee and Frances Finch Lee, and sister, Alice Lee, are buried. (AP)