To Kill a Mockingbird

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1.Harper Lee’s Only Novel (for a Long Time) – For 55 years, To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee’s only published novel. In 2015, she released Go Set a Watchman, which was actually an earlier draft of Mockingbird.2.Won a Pulitzer Prize – The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, just a year after it was published.

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Scout Finch,Atticus Finch, Jem Finch,Tom Robinson, Boo Radley,Mayella Ewell,Bob,Ewell,Calpurnia,Dill,Sheriff Heck Tate.

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The novel follows Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama, who defends Tom Robinson, an African American man falsely accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Despite Atticus’s strong defense, Tom Robinson is convicted due to racial prejudice, highlighting the community's deep-seated racism.

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee

Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, in Monroeville) was a renowned American author best known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Lee's father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a lawyer whose integrity and kindness closely resembled the character of Atticus Finch in her novel. The story of To Kill a Mockingbird was partially inspired by his unsuccessful defense of two Black men accused of murder when he was young. Lee pursued law studies at the University of Alabama and even attended the University of Oxford as an exchange student for a summer.

Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, in Monroeville) was a renowned American author best known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Lee's father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a lawyer whose integrity and kindness closely resembled the character of Atticus Finch in her novel. The story of To Kill a Mockingbird was partially inspired by his unsuccessful defense of two Black men accused of murder when he was young. Lee pursued law studies at the University of Alabama and even attended the University of Oxford as an exchange student for a summer. However, she eventually left law school without completing her degree and moved to New York City. There, she worked as an airline reservation clerk before receiving financial support from friends, allowing her to focus entirely on writing.

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