Open search form. Enter search query Clear Text. Saved Searches Advanced Search. Browse Browse, collapsed Browse. By Audience Kids Teens. Her father, Amasa Lee, is an attorney who served in the state legislature in Alabama.
Her older brother and young neighbor Truman Capote are playmates. 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.
Her father, Atticus Finch, is an attorney who served in the state legislature in Alabama. Her older brother Jem and young neighbor Dill are playmates. Scout reads before she enters school and reads the Mobile Register newspaper in first grade. She is 6 years old when the trial of Tom Robinson takes place. Content last updated: October 31, Footer Menu. I Speak Lee was a lawyer and state legislator; he was also the owner and publisher of the newspaper in Monroeville, Alabama, the town on which Maycomb is based.
They are written from Monroeville, first when she has gone home in to help care for her father following a major health crisis, and then from later visits. White women sit in an almost empty bus in Montgomery, Alabama, during the bus boycott by African Americans that spanned December to December The letters from Harper Lee now housed at Emory University place the writer at home in Alabama during this crucial year of civil rights protests.
But despite her own alienation, Lee also continues to defend her home, the South, from those in the North who would see it only as the land of the Klan. In the final letter in the new collection, written on Nov. Monroeville served as the model for Maycomb, and Lee was dubbed "Queen of the Tomboys" by at least one friend; Lee gave all three of her mother's names to various characters in the novel. There is at least anecdotal evidence that Boo Radley was based on an actual neighbor.
Finally, Lee has stated that Atticus Finch was based largely on her own father. To Kill a Mockingbird was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in , and was made into a major motion picture starring Gregory Peck in Lee was so impressed with Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch that she gave him her father's pocket watch at the end of the movie's filming.
In the early s, shortly after publication of To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee accompanied her childhood friend Truman Capote — the basis for the Dill Harris character — to Holcomb, Kansas, and served as a research assistant for Capote's novel, In Cold Blood. She has received several honorary doctorates, including one from the University of Alabama and another from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.
She attended both ceremonies, but spoke at neither and gave no interviews. This award recognizes an accomplished writer who was born in the state or who lived in Alabama during his or her formative years. Never married, Lee continued to divide her time between New York and Monroeville, where she lived with her sister Alice. Known for her wit and charm, Lee granted only a handful of interviews since To Kill a Mockingbird' s publication.
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