The Finch family of Maycomb, Alabama feature in which 1960 novel?
"brewing in the South in the 1950s and delves into the complex relationship between father and daughter. It includes treatments of many of the characters who appear in ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Jean Louise ""Scout"" Finch, 26, returns to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama, from New York. While on her annual fortnight-long visit home, she is met by her childhood sweetheart Henry ""Hank"" Clinton. Clinton works for her father Atticus, who is a lawyer and former state legislator. Jack, Atticus's brother and a retired doctor, is Scout's mentor. Their sister Alexandria runs the house and took Calpurnia's place when she"
"of 2007 and was nominated for the Agatha Award for best new mystery of 2007. ""The September Society"", Finch's second historical mystery featuring the Charles Lenox character, was published in 2008. ""The Fleet Street Murders"" came out in 2009 and was nominated for the Nero Award. ""A Stranger in Mayfair"", the fourth Lenox mystery, was released in 2010. ""A Burial at Sea"", ""A Death in the Small Hours"", ""An Old Betrayal"", ""The Laws of Murder"", ""Home by Nightfall"", and ""The Inheritance"" were released in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively. ""The Woman in the Water"", released in 2018,"
"magazine's 1960 review of the book states that it ""teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life"" and calls Scout Finch ""the most appealing child since Carson McCullers' Frankie got left behind at the wedding"". The ""Chicago Sunday Tribune"" noted the even-handed approach to the narration of the novel's events, writing: ""This is in no way a sociological novel. It underlines no cause ... ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" is a novel of strong contemporary national significance."" Not all reviewers were enthusiastic. Some lamented the use of poor white Southerners, and one-dimensional black"
"first published in hardcover by St. Martin’s Minotaur and released on November 9, 2010. A large print edition was published by Center Point Publishing in June 2011. The trade paperback was released in July 2011. A Stranger in Mayfair A Stranger in Mayfair, by Charles Finch, is a mystery set in Mayfair and surrounding neighborhoods in London, England during the Victorian era. It is the fourth novel in the Charles Lenox series. Charles Lenox, gentleman amateur detective, has recently married and has been elected to Parliament. Although Lenox plans to give up detection (due to the demands of his new"
"The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 (1995) is a historical-fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. First published in 1995, it was reprinted in 1997. It tells the story of a loving African-American family living in the town of Flint, Michigan, in 1963. When the oldest son (Byron) begins to get into a bit of trouble, the parents decide he should spend the summer and possibly the next school year with Grandma Sands in Birmingham, Alabama. The entire family travels there together by car, and during their visit, tragic events take place. The"
"The Town (Faulkner novel) The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of the ""Snopes"" trilogy, following ""The Hamlet"" (1940) and completed by ""The Mansion"" (1959). Each chapter is narrated from the point of view of one of three characters: Chick Mallison, Gavin Stevens, or V.K. Ratliff. Flem moves into Jefferson; is cuckolded by de Spain. De Spain's election. Flem is made power-plant supervisor. Flem steals brass from the plant. Flem plays Tom Tom and Turl off against each other; Tom Tom cuckolds"
"father, Atticus Finch, as the moral compass (""watchman"") of Maycomb, and has a theme of disillusionment, as she discovers the extent of the bigotry in her home community. The book's unexpected and controversial discovery, decades after it was written, in light of the status of the author's only other book as an American classic, caused its publication to be highly anticipated. Amazon stated that it was their ""most pre-ordered book"" since ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"" in 2007, and stores arranged all-night openings beginning at midnight to cope with expected demand. ""Go Set a Watchman"" tackles the racial tensions"
"Finch (nicknamed Scout), who lives with her older brother, Jeremy (nicknamed Jem), and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified yet fascinated by their neighbor, the reclusive Arthur ""Boo"" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo, and few of them have seen him for many years. The children feed one another's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they fantasize about how to get him out of his"
"precocious children and adolescents of mid-twentieth-century American fiction—a dazzling lot that includes the tomboys Frankie of Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding (1946) and Scout Finch of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), the murderous eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark of William March’s The Bad Seed (1954), and the slightly older, disaffected Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and Esther Greenwood of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—none is more memorable than eighteen-year-old “Merricat” of Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece of Gothic suspense We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)... Merricat speaks with a seductive and"
"A Stranger in Mayfair A Stranger in Mayfair, by Charles Finch, is a mystery set in Mayfair and surrounding neighborhoods in London, England during the Victorian era. It is the fourth novel in the Charles Lenox series. Charles Lenox, gentleman amateur detective, has recently married and has been elected to Parliament. Although Lenox plans to give up detection (due to the demands of his new vocation and to alleviate the concerns of his new wife), he is pulled into a case when a colleague in Parliament asks for help solving the murder of his footman. ""A Stranger in Mayfair""', was"
"by Finch. The article describes a unique covering stitched by Harriet Powers of Athens, Georgia. Powers, a former slave, created an appliqued quilt featuring Bible stories. The article included quotes, presumably, from Powers, who had died four years earlier as well as a photograph of the quilt, known as the Bible Quilt. The Finch article was one of the earliest known about The Bible Quilt, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Later Career<br> In the 1930s, Finch taught drama at the Edgewood School in Greenwich, CT., Additionally, she and partner"
"The Mansion (novel) The Mansion is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1959. It is the last in a trilogy of books about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi, following ""The Hamlet"" and ""The Town"". The novel charts the downfall of Flem Snopes at the hands of his relative Mink Snopes, in part aided by Flem's deaf Spanish-Civil-War-veteran daughter, Linda Snopes. It falls into three parts: 'Mink', 'Linda', and 'Flem'. Three narrators tell the story, Gavin Stevens, V.K. Ratliff, and Charles Mallison. ""The Mansion"" deals with the South's displaced economic landscape in the first half of"
"Charles Finch Charles Finch (born 1980) is an American author and literary critic. He has written a series of mystery novels set in Victorian era England. Finch was born in New York City. He graduated from Phillips Academy and Yale University where he majored in English and History. He also holds a master's degree in Renaissance English Literature from Merton College, Oxford. He is the grandson of American artist and writer Anne Truitt. He lives in Chicago. His first published novel, ""A Beautiful Blue Death"", introduced gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox. The book was named one of Library Journal’s Best Books"
"Clare Hamilton owned the Little Shop, an antiques and gift store, according to the Greenwich, CT city directories from the 1930s to 1941. Books Stories and Poems Plays Lucine Finch Lucine Finch (c. 1875 – April 26, 1947) was a dramatist, graphic artist, magazine storywriter and poet born in Alabama. She traveled across the United States performing a series of slave narratives and songs. She was one of the earliest people to teach the public about The Bible Quilt and its background. Finch attended the University of Chicago for five years, though she did not graduate. Mammy's Stories<br> Early in"
"The September Society The September Society, by Charles Finch, is the mystery set in Oxford and London, England in autumn 1866, during the Victorian era. It is the second novel in a series featuring gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox, and the first of two books Finch has written about Oxford, along with The Last Enchantments. A student at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford goes missing. His mother engages Charles Lenox to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Lenox, himself a graduate of Oxford, revisits his alma mater to piece together the clues in this kidnapping case which,"
"bestselling ""Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is"" (1852). As another example, Chapter VII of ""Uncle Robin"" - entitled ""Death in a Cabin"" - strongly resembles a similar chapter in the 1852 anti-Tom novel: ""Frank Freeman's Barber Shop"" by Rev. Baynard Rush Hall. He features the death of a slave named Dinah, who is a redeemed Christian, as do Eastman and Page. J.W. Randolph Publishers issued additional anti-Tom novels before the Civil War, among them the satirical ""White Acre vs. Black Acre"" (1856) by William M. Burwell. Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One"
"his own family. The town was abandoned after the paper mill closed down in the 1970s. Cory drives to all his familiar haunts, finally stopping at his family's home. Before leaving, Cory decides to drive to the Thaxter mansion. There, Cory discovers that the mansion was given to an orphanage for boys and several people he knew in childhood still live there, working with the little boys. The novel is set in Zephyr, Alabama, a fictional town near the Tecumseh River. The book is set in the 1960s. Zephyr is a small town that is populated with people who work"
"Summer"" (1958), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, is very loosely based on stories by William Faulkner, primarily ""The Hamlet"". That film was remade as the television series of the same name. <br> The Hamlet The Hamlet is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1940, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the first of the ""Snopes"" trilogy, completed by ""The Town"" (1957), and ""The Mansion"" (1959). The novel follows the exploits of the Snopes family, beginning with Ab Snopes, who is introduced more fully in Faulkner's ""The Unvanquished"". Most of the book centers"
"1980s crime drama, 'Cagney and Lacey'. Literature: A series of children's books called, 'Minton Goes...' has been written by Anna Fienberg and Kim Gamble. A character called Sophia Minton also appeared in Agatha Christie's book, 'N or M?'. The fictional airfield of RAF Minton featured in 'The Shepherd' by Frederick Forsyth while the village of Little Minton was invented by Enid Blyton for her book, 'The Mystery of the Secret Room'. The fictional town of Minton, New England also provided the setting for the 1860 novel, 'The Ebony Idol' by G M Flanders. Minton, Shropshire Minton is a hamlet in"
"the mining company. Laughing Whitefish Laughing Whitefish is a 1965 historical novel by Justice John D. Voelker, writing under the pen name ""Robert Traver"". It is based on an actual trilogy of Michigan Supreme Court cases from the 1880s. The final case in the series, ""Kobogum v. Jackson Iron Co."", established in Michigan the general rule that state courts must defer to tribal law in cases involving the internal, domestic relations of American Indians residing within their own territory. A shy young lawyer, William Poe (Willy), opens up a law practice in Marquette, Michigan in 1873. His first client is"
"Meet the Austins Meet the Austins is the title of a 1960 novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the first of her books about the Austin family. It introduces the characters Vicky Austin and her three siblings, and Maggy Hamilton, an orphan. Vicky Austin's noisy, loving, mostly-happy family is disrupted when the family's honorary uncle dies in a plane crash. His co-pilot was also killed, leaving behind a ten-year-old daughter, Maggy, who has no one to care for her. The Austins take Maggy in, and she proves to be a spoiled, troubled only child who had very little family life. Maggy encourages"
"is a prequel presenting the beginning of Lenox’s career in detection. All eleven books are published by St. Martin's Minotaur, a division of St. Martin's Press. Finch's first contemporary novel, ""The Last Enchantments"", was published by St. Martin's Press in early 2014. He has written for ""The New York Times"" and ""Slate"" and regularly writes essays and criticism for ""The New York Times"", ""The New York Times Book Review"", ""The New Yorker"", the ""Guardian"", the ""Chicago Tribune"" and ""USA Today"". He was a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, losing to"
"A Death in the Small Hours A Death in the Small Hours, by Charles Finch, is a novel set in England during the Victorian era. It is the sixth novel in the Charles Lenox series. Charles Lenox, gentleman and former amateur detective, is now a prominent Member of the House of Commons. When selected to make the opening speech at the next session of Parliament, he takes up an offer to spend some time at his uncle’s estate in Somerset. Although Lenox expected to find a few quiet weeks to prepare his speech, instead he finds a bizarre case of"
"Finch (novel) Finch is a fantasy novel by American writer Jeff VanderMeer, his third set in the Ambergris universe. Written in the noir style of detective novels, it stands alone, while referencing characters and events from the earlier ""City of Saints and Madmen"" and """". At the time of ""Finch"", Ambergris is ruled by the gray caps, a non-human, ""spore-based"" species. Their ""Rising"" followed a destructive civil war between rival human factions. The title character, reluctant detective John Finch, is tasked with investigating a double-murder, one victim a human and the second a gray cap. Eric Brown reviewed the book"
"book of his trilogy following the Vaiden family. Further, the same year he married Lou Ella Kloss, a music teacher and hometown friend. Set in Florence, Alabama, this trilogy follows three generations of the Vaiden family. ""Through not great literary art, Stribling's trilogy is, nevertheless, historically significant; for in The Forge, The Store, and Unfinished Cathedral, Stribling introduced a subject matter, themes, plot elements, and character types which parallel and at the same time anticipate those that William Faulkner, who owned copies of this trilogy, would treat in ""Absalom, Absalom!"" and in the Snopes trilogy."" (Martine, 76) These three novels"
"television film directed by John Kent Harrison, and a 2018 theatrical film directed by Ava DuVernay. The book was written between 1959 and 1960. L'Engle wrote repeatedly about the writing of the story and the long struggle to get it published. In ""A Circle of Quiet"" (1972), she explains that the book was conceived ""during a time of transition."" After years of living in rural Goshen, Connecticut, and running a general store, L'Engle's family, the Franklins, moved back to New York City, first taking a ten-week camping trip across the country. L'Engle writes that ""we drove through a world of"
"""A Face in the Crowd"", ""Undefeated"", ""Man on the Moon"", ""Nothing But the Truth"", ""Sore Losers"", ""Soul Men"", ""I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I."", ""I'm From Hollywood"", ""The Grace Card"", ""This is Elvis"", ""Cookie's Fortune"", ""Open Five"", ""The Open Road"", ""In the Valley of Elah"", ""Walk Hard"", ""My Blueberry Nights"", ""Savage Country"", and ""Two-Lane Blacktop"". The television series ""Greenleaf"", ""Memphis Beat"", and ""Quarry"" are set in the city. Literature Many works of fiction and literature are set in Memphis. These include ""The Reivers"" by William Faulkner (1962), ""September, September"" by Shelby Foote (1977); Peter Taylor's ""The Old Forest and"
"Lucine Finch Lucine Finch (c. 1875 – April 26, 1947) was a dramatist, graphic artist, magazine storywriter and poet born in Alabama. She traveled across the United States performing a series of slave narratives and songs. She was one of the earliest people to teach the public about The Bible Quilt and its background. Finch attended the University of Chicago for five years, though she did not graduate. Mammy's Stories<br> Early in her dramatic career, she developed a program consisting of slave narratives and songs called her ""Mammy Stories."" Finch traveled across the United States and performed in theaters and"
"wealthy, well-connected Huffam to act as godfather to Charles. This same Huffam family appeared later in Charles Palliser's 1989 ""The Quincunx"", a homage to the Dickensian novel form. As with most of Dickens' work, a number of socially significant themes are to be found in this book. In particular the book deals with the then-prevalent common practice of arranged marriages for financial gain. Other themes to be detected within this work include child cruelty (particularly in Dombey's treatment of Florence), familial relationships, and as ever in Dickens, betrayal and deceit and the consequences thereof. Another strong central theme, which the"
"Laughing Whitefish Laughing Whitefish is a 1965 historical novel by Justice John D. Voelker, writing under the pen name ""Robert Traver"". It is based on an actual trilogy of Michigan Supreme Court cases from the 1880s. The final case in the series, ""Kobogum v. Jackson Iron Co."", established in Michigan the general rule that state courts must defer to tribal law in cases involving the internal, domestic relations of American Indians residing within their own territory. A shy young lawyer, William Poe (Willy), opens up a law practice in Marquette, Michigan in 1873. His first client is Charlotte Kawbawgam, a"
"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"
"Aunt Phillis's Cabin Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia in 1852 as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", published earlier that year. The novel sold 20,000–30,000 copies, making it a strong commercial success and bestseller. Based on her growing up in Warrenton, Virginia of an elite planter family, Eastman portrays plantation owners and slaves as mutually respectful, kind, and happy beings. Published in 1852,"
"hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected. Instead of a ""quick and merciful death"", ""Reader's Digest Condensed Books"" chose the book for reprinting in part, which gave it a wide readership immediately. Since the original publication, the book has never been out of print. The story takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional ""tired old town"" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County. It focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise"