"Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ""In Cold Blood"" (1966). Capote"
"was the basis for the character Dill in ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". The plot and characters of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. The novel was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Another novel, ""Go Set a Watchman"", was written in"
"who was inspired by Capote's memories of Lee as a child, was played by Aubrey Dollar. Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting"
"To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The story is told by the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's"
"Alabama House of Representatives. Lee also worked as the editor and proprietor of the ""Monroe Journal"" from 1929 to 1947. He died in Monroeville, Alabama. Amasa Coleman Lee Amasa Coleman Lee (July 19, 1880 – April 15, 1962) was an American politician and lawyer. Lee was the father of Harper Lee, author of the novel ""To Kill A Mockingbird."" It is often said that Atticus Finch, one of the characters in the novel, is based, at least in part, on Amasa Coleman Lee. Lee was born in Georgiana, Alabama. He lived on a farm in or near Chipley, Florida, and"
"book, or Lee herself. Local residents call them ""Mockingbird groupies"", and although Lee was not reclusive, she refused publicity and interviews with an emphatic ""Hell, no!"" To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The story is told by the"
"the mid-1950s and published in July 2015 as a ""sequel"", though it was later confirmed to be ""To Kill a Mockingbird""s first draft. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama where she grew up as the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee. Her parents chose her middle name, Harper, to honor pediatrician Dr. William W. Harper, of Selma, Alabama, who saved the life of her sister Louise. Her first name, Nelle, was her grandmother's name spelled backwards and the name she used; Harper Lee being primarily her pen name."
"Amasa Coleman Lee Amasa Coleman Lee (July 19, 1880 – April 15, 1962) was an American politician and lawyer. Lee was the father of Harper Lee, author of the novel ""To Kill A Mockingbird."" It is often said that Atticus Finch, one of the characters in the novel, is based, at least in part, on Amasa Coleman Lee. Lee was born in Georgiana, Alabama. He lived on a farm in or near Chipley, Florida, and he worked variously as a teacher and as a bookkeeper at the Flat Creek Mill in Finchburg, Alabama, where he met and, on June 22,"
"felt greatly effected, and felt that Capote had in a way taken advantage of their “great tragedy."" An article in the New York Times states that in the small Kansas community of Holcomb “neighborliness evaporated. The natural order seemed suspended. Chaos poised to rush in.” Capote became interested in the murders after reading about it in ""The New York Times"". He brought his childhood friend Nelle Harper Lee (who would later win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel ""To Kill a Mockingbird"") to help gain the confidence of the locals in Kansas. Capote did copious research for the"
"this: ""Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Harper Lee's mother and father, lived very near. She was my best friend. Did you ever read her book, ""To Kill a Mockingbird""? I'm a character in that book, which takes place in the same small town in Alabama where we lived. Her father was a lawyer, and she and I used to go to trials all the time as children. We went to the trials instead of going to the movies."" After Lee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and Capote published ""In Cold Blood"" in 1966, the authors became increasingly distant from"
"but is a faint shadow of Capote's older cousin Bud Faulk, a single man, likely homosexual, and role model for Capote while he was growing up in Alabama. Idabel Thompkins: A gloomy, cantankerous tomboy who befriends Joel. Idabel's character is an exaggeration of Capote's childhood friend, Nelle Harper Lee, later the author of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Florabel Thompkins: Idabel's feminine and prissy sister. Jesus Fever: A centenarian, pygmyish, African American mule-driver at Skully's Landing, where he had been a slave 70 years before. Missouri Fever (Zoo): Jesus' granddaughter who is in her mid 20s. She wears a scarf on"
"blacks: ""It was out of this festering discontent and an awareness of earlier isolated protests that the sit-ins of the 1960s were born."" After seeing pictures of Till's mutilated body, in Louisville, Kentucky, young Cassius Clay (later famed boxer Muhammad Ali) and a friend took out their frustration by vandalizing a local railyard, causing a locomotive engine to derail. It is speculated that Till's story influenced Harper Lee to create the character Tom Robinson in her novel ""To Kill A Mockingbird"", but she said the plot was related to a much earlier incident in her life. In 1963, Sunflower County"
"Quarterly, December, 1993. “Discord in Concord: Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne,” in Hawthorne and the Women of His Day. University of Mass. Press,1999 Claudia Durst Johnson Claudia Durst Johnson is a literary scholar best known for her work on the novel ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", introducing the idea of the novel's gothicism and gothic satire. In the process of her research she befriended the author, Harper Lee. When the city of Chicago organized a One City One Book program in 2001 based on ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", Lee was unavailable to speak, so Johnson was invited to Chicago to"
"outside immediately and pick up the pages,"" Shields wrote. When the novel was finally ready, the author opted to use the name ""Harper Lee"", rather than risk having her first name Nelle be misidentified as ""Nellie"". Published July 11, 1960, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller, with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted ""Best Novel of the Century"" in a poll by the ""Library Journal"". Like Lee, the tomboy Scout of the novel is the"
"Tom Franklin (author) Thomas Gerald Franklin (born July 7, 1963) is an American writer originally from Dickinson, Alabama, United States, ""a town of around 500 people in south central Alabama, near Monroeville, home of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" author Harper Lee"". In a recent interview, Franklin reveals the role imagination played during his younger years as he grew up ""playing with G. I. Joes and imagining their lives. Building sci-fi forts from cardboard boxes and bricks, drawing control panels on the walls, etc. I liked creating the forts more than I did playing in them. There was something wonderful about"
"not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind"", is how Capote described Sook in ""A Christmas Memory"" (1956). In Monroeville, he was a neighbor and friend of author Harper Lee, who probably based the character Dill on Capote. As a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before he entered his first year of school. Capote was often seen at age 5 carrying his dictionary and notepad, and began writing fiction at age 11. He was given the nickname ""Bulldog"" around this age. On Saturdays, he made trips from Monroeville to the nearby city"
"a factual book about an Alabama serial murderer, but also put it aside when she was not satisfied. Her withdrawal from public life prompted unfounded speculation that new publications were in the works. Lee said of the 1962 Academy Award–winning screenplay adaptation of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" by Horton Foote: ""I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made."" She became a friend of Gregory Peck, and after his death remained close to the actor's family; Peck's grandson, Harper Peck Voll, is named after her. Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of"
"Claudia Durst Johnson Claudia Durst Johnson is a literary scholar best known for her work on the novel ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", introducing the idea of the novel's gothicism and gothic satire. In the process of her research she befriended the author, Harper Lee. When the city of Chicago organized a One City One Book program in 2001 based on ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", Lee was unavailable to speak, so Johnson was invited to Chicago to present the book to the city. Johnson, a native of North Carolina, earned a PhD in Literature at the University of Illinois in 1973."
"McDonagh Murphy interviewed celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Rosanne Cash, Tom Brokaw, and Harper's sister Alice Lee, who read the novel and compiled their impressions of it as children and adults into a book titled ""Scout, Atticus, and Boo"". One of the most significant impacts ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" has had is Atticus Finch's model of integrity for the legal profession. As scholar Alice Petry explains, ""Atticus has become something of a folk hero in legal circles and is treated almost as if he were an actual person."" Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center cites Atticus Finch as the"
"credits his perennial teaching of certain novels to high school students with teaching him about ""the scaffolding"" of longer stories. Among these, Lamb lists Harper Lee's ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", Mark Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", and J.D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"". He says Joseph Campbell's ""The Hero with a Thousand Faces"" and other anthropological analyses of the commonalities of ancient myths from diverse world cultures helped him to figure out the ways in which stories, ancient and modern, can illuminate the human condition. Lamb has also stated that he is influenced by pop culture and artists"
"and humanist John Lovejoy Elliot. He notes that the book, ""A Ministry to Man"", was published in 1959, a year before ""Mockingbird."" Atticus Finch Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1960, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel ""Go Set a Watchman"", written in the mid 1950s but not published until 2015. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy ""Jem"" Finch and Jean Louise ""Scout"" Finch. Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa"
"home for Truman Capote, her lifelong friend and a fellow writer. Lee lived here most of her life, and the enduring popularity of her novel, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1960), has attracted tourists to the city and area. For thousands of years the area was inhabited by indigenous peoples. In historic times, it was primarily the territory of the Creek peoples, who became known to European-American settlers as one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast. The prominent Upper Creek chief Red Eagle (also known as William Weatherford), of the Wind Clan, settled here after the Creek War (1813-1814)."
"do believe more members of my generation went to law school because of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,'""—the movie based on Harper Lee's book starring Gregory Peck as the highly principled lawyer Atticus Finch, Camp said. ""It came out while I was in college."" He was in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama from 1973 to 1975, and in Newnan from 1975 to 1988. Camp remembered winning a jury acquittal in Pike County of a client who had shot and killed someone. While he was sitting at the counsel table after the verdict had been rendered, the widow of the dead man"
"as if she were reciting a series of grievances, secure in the knowledge they will appall."" Linda references several real-world figures and works throughout her story. The novel is prefaced by a quotation from ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" by Harper Lee; Linda later discusses how she relates to the character of Scout. In addition, she reads a historical book entitled ""North Carolina Parade: Stories of History and People"" by Richard Gaither. The history of the Wright Brothers' first flight plays a prominent role in her thoughts throughout the novel. Another historical figure that Linda relates to is George Moses Horton;"
"first saw Harper Lee's manuscript in 1957, she considered it to be ""more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel"" though ""the spark of the true writer flashed in every line"". Over the course of the next two years, she guided Harper Lee until the book finally achieved its finished shape and was retitled ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Once during the long editorial process, Lee lost confidence in herself and threw her manuscript out her window and into the snow. When she called her editor in tears, Hohoff ""told her to march outside immediately and pick up the"
"Lee's longtime friend Wayne Flynt told ""Associated Press"" that the ""narrative of senility, exploitation of this helpless little old lady is just hogwash. It's just complete bunk."" Flynt said he found Lee capable of giving consent and believes no one will ever know for certain the terms of said consent. Marja Mills, author of ""The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee"", a friend and former neighbor of Lee and her sister Alice, paints a very different picture. In her piece for ""The Washington Post"" ""The Harper Lee I knew"", she quotes Lee's sister Alice, whom she describes as ""gatekeeper,"
"Atticus Finch Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1960, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel ""Go Set a Watchman"", written in the mid 1950s but not published until 2015. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy ""Jem"" Finch and Jean Louise ""Scout"" Finch. Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa Coleman Lee, an Alabama lawyer, who, like Atticus, represented black defendants in a highly publicized criminal trial. ""Book Magazine""s list of ""The"
"trial ""State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias,"" and Atticus Finch's defense of Tom Robinson in ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". In a letter to the author, Harper Lee herself noted the ""obvious parallels"" between the cases (Lee was 12 at the time of the Charles White trial) and between Atticus Finch and Foster Beck, though she also stated that she could not recall the trial, and that ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" was a work of fiction. Former President Barack Obama referenced Atticus Finch as an ideal American character. In addition Atticus was mentioned during one of Obama's speeches. In July"
"50th anniversary of publication in 2010. In honor of the 50th anniversary, famous authors and celebrities as well as people close to the book's author, Harper Lee, shared their experiences with ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" in the book ""Scout, Atticus, & Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird"". The book features interviews with Mary Badham, Tom Brokaw, Oprah Winfrey, Anna Quindlen, Richard Russo, as well as Harper Lee's sister, Alice Finch Lee. The 2010 documentary film ""Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird"" focuses on the background of the book and the film as"
"he tells Atticus that to drag the shy and reserved Boo into the spotlight for his heroism would be ""a sin"". To protect Boo, Sheriff Tate suggests that Ewell ""fell on his knife"". Scout draws a startlingly precocious analogy, likening unwelcome public attention to Boo to the killing of a mockingbird. In the order of the film's opening credits: The producers had wanted to use Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama for the set. Harper Lee used her experiences as a child in Monroeville as the basis for the fictional town of Maycomb, so it seemed that would be the"
"undisclosed amount. McMillian's case served as a catalyst for Alabama's compensation statute, which was passed in 2001. McMillian later developed dementia, believed to be brought on by the trauma of imprisonment. He died in 2013. In the fall of 1992, McMillian's case received national attention in the CBS News program ""60 Minutes"". It was pointed out that Monroeville, Alabama was ""best known as the home of the Harper Lee, whose ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" told a painful story of race and justice in the small-town Jim Crow South."" A 2017 article in the ""New York Times"" echoed the similarities and"
"a tight spot. The Ape Man would become a seemingly rootless adventurer intervening in the affairs of an endlessly changing gallery of secondary characters whose goals and entanglements were henceforth to form the basis of the novels' plots. This shift in plot-type had first been presaged by the introduction of strong secondary characters as early as ""Tarzan the Untamed""; after ""Tarzan and the Ant Men"" it would become dominant. ""Tarzan and the Ant Men"" is referred to in Harper Lee's novel ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1960) as a book read by the young protagonist, Jean Louise (""Scout"") Finch. The book"
"Tay Hohoff Therese von Hohoff Torrey (""Tay Hohoff"") (July 3, 1898 — January 5, 1974) was an American literary editor with the publishing firm J. B. Lippincott & Co.. Strong-willed and forceful, she worked closely with author Harper Lee over the course of nearly three years to give final shape to her classic novel ""To Kill A Mockingbird"". After the commercial and literary success of the novel, she shielded Harper Lee from the intense pressure to write another one. She retired from a senior editorial position at the firm in 1973 and died the following year. Tay Hohoff's parents, Ernest"