Born in a small AL town which served as the setting for Mbird. Her vivid descriptions of the place are full of realistic details because she is writing what she experienced as a child.

Mockingbird was her only work for over 50 yards. There have been questions about her authorship over the years, and those questions in 2015 when a previous work was published. Many fans feel that she was manipulated into releasing this second book. Some of her relatives claim that she didn't know what she was signing when she granted permission to publish.

Similarities between her childhood and the
life of her narrator, Scout: they are both tomboys; both have fathers who are lawyers; they are both voracious readers; they both have older brothers; they both are bright and inquisitive.

It feels as if Scout is the literary version of the author herself

Similarities between her childhood and the
life of her narrator, Scout: they are both tomboys; both have fathers who are lawyers. Although Harper Lee had a mother, it is clear that the dominant parent in her life was her father.

Also. one of the famous scenes in the novel is when Scout and her brother sneak into the courtroom to watch their father defending someone. As a child, Harper would go the the local courthouse to watch her father in action as well.

Best childhood friend was another famous American author, Truman Capote. He is the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was also made into a very successful movie starring Audrey Hepburn.

One of the characters in the novel is largely based on him.

Although some question whether Capote actually wrote Mockingbird or at least helped extensively, his surviving relatives deny those rumors.

Lee had been working as a journalist in New York but really wanted to work on writing a novel. Unfortunately, she could not quit her job to do that.

She had become friends with a Broadway composers, Michael Martin Brown and his wife, Joy. For Lee's Christmas present in 1956, they offered to support her for a year while she wrote Mbird. She quit her job and began to write full time.

Lee's greatest accomplishment was her 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. It tells the story of a motherless family, Atticus Finch and his two children, Jem and Scout. Atticus is an unconventional father raising two bright and equally unconventional children. Their happiness and innocence is threatened when Atticus agrees to defend a Black man accused of raping a white woman.

This book is widely used in schools across the country, and one source estimates that it earns $4 million annually.

Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is one of the most highly awarded American novels of the 20th century. In 1960, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction after being on the bestseller list for more than 40 weeks. Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction often focus on themes in American life, and the account of life in the South reported in "To Kill a Mockingbird" certainly qualifies.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" also won the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1961. This organization aims to promote harmony among members of all faiths, ethnic backgrounds and beliefs. The manner in which Atticus Finch maintains his moral fortitude in the face of prejudice and racism is a testament to what this award represents.

In the same year, "To Kill a Mockingbird" won the Alabama Library Association Award. It is fitting that Alabama's Library Association, which is the state in which Harper Lee grew up and served as the setting for her novel, would honor "To Kill a Mockingbird" with such an award.

Mockingbird was awarded the Paperback of the Year award from "Bestsellers" magazine in 1962. Its widespread popularity among literary critics, educators and young readers alike, helped it to earn this award in only its second year of publication.

QUOTES

One Christmas their Uncle Jack gives Jem and Scout air rifles. Their father is not thrilled with the gift, but he gives them this advice:

"I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

This is an important quote, not only because it provides the novel's title, but it also addresses the primary symbol used throughout the book.

This seems like a good question for this author because her work challenges many stereotypical assumptions about women, Blacks, social status, and accepted societal attitudes.

While people always say that stereotypes exist because they are true, when we use them, we diminish others and limit our understanding of them. In extreme cases, this can lead to violence and hatred, but even in minor cases, it fosters ungodly attitudes and thoughtless comments.