Harper Lee Life Stories, Books, & Links


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Picture of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird; twentieth century American Literature

Harper Lee (1926 - )

Category: American Literature

Born: 1926
Monroeville, Alabama, United States

Related authors:
Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou

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4/28/1926		Harper Lee at Home On this day in 1926 Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama. After the immediate and overwhelming success of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), and despite forecasting more, Lee is known to have published only three short magazine articles since, all in the 60s; nor has she broken the silence and anonymity into which she quickly retreated.

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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Monroeville, AL: The Search For Harper Lee's Maycomb by Monroe County Heritage Museums non-fiction
Readings on to Kill a Mockingbird by Terry O'Neill (Editor) biography, reviews, essays
To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries by Claudia Durst Johnson literary criticism and analysis
Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents by Claudia Durst Johnson guide

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Growing Up Black in Alabama in the 1930s
An interview with a women about growing up black and poor in Alabama in the 1930s. Describes crooked landowner-tenant relations, the poor living conditions and lack of electricity, the added hardships of the Great Depression, and reflections on two important events in Civil Rights history: Autherine Lucy's attempt to enter the University of Alabama, and the Montgomery bus boycott.

To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee
Offers a Harper Lee biography, a reference list of people places and things mentioned in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, information about the cast and making of the 1963 Academy Award winning film starring Gregory Peck, and links to sites about Monroeville, Alabama -- Lee's place of birth and inspiration for Maycomb.

To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide
This resource for high school students offers chapter synopses, annotations on vocabulary, allusions and idioms, and supplementary resources including pictures and links to external web resources.

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