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Feb 19, 2016 · Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89. Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images...
Mar 26, 2024 · Harper Lee is an avid reader as a child. She is 6 years old when the Scottsboro trials are widely covered in national, state and local newspapers. Scout Finch’s Childhood. She grew up in the 1930s in a rural southern Alabama town. Her father, Atticus Finch, is an attorney who served in the state legislature in Alabama.
Feb 19, 2016 · Books. Harper Lee: Her Life and Work. By JOHN WILLIAMS and TAMARA BESTFEB. 19, 2016. Harper Lee, the beloved author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died on Friday in her hometown of Monroeville,...
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in June 1960 and became instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird has become a classic of modern American literature; a year after its release, it won the Pulitzer Prize.
Feb 19, 2016 · Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served on the state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed ...
Feb 27, 2018 · Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89. Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images...
Feb 19, 2016 · PBS NewsHour. Leave your feedback. Transcript Audio. Renowned author Harper Lee, whose debut novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” has become enshrined within the American literary canon, died early...
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