Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)

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Harper Lee: Author of To Kill A Mockingbird **note, this is not my work, but a compilation of works found on this site.

Background Born April 28th, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama

Parents Mother - Amassa Coleman Lee

Father - Francis Finch, a lawyer

Siblings Youngest of four children

Education Monroeville Public School

Enrolled in a Law Degree at University of Alabama, but never completed

Childhood Brought up in The Great Depression in her childhood where poverty was common

Personality Tom boy

Precocious reader

Wrote To Kill A Mockingbird

Details Her only novel

Written in the 1950s and published in the 1960s

Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co

Immediate best seller

Adapted into a film (1964, Robert Mulligan)

Awards

Pulitzer prize for fiction (1961)

Alabama Library Association Award

Inspiration Dill was based upon a neighbour and childhood friend

Boo Radley was based upon a neighbour

Atticus was inspired by her father, who was also an attorney

Maycomb resembles much of what her hometown was like

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After To Kill A Mockingbird

Relocation Moved back to Monroeville, AL

Appearances Granted few interviews and public appearances

Later works Accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas to help research his novel "Cold Blood"

Bibliography **I have not included references found on goconqr.com

Staff, TheBestNotes. "TheBestNotes on To Kill A Mockingbird". TheBestNotes.com. 22 January 2016. 28 April 2015

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