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Harper Lee


Born
in Monroeville, Alabama, The United States
April 28, 1926

Died
February 19, 2016

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Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Her second and final novel, Go Set a Watchman, was an earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, that was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama, as well as a childhood event that occurred near her hometown in 1936. The novel deals with racist attitudes, the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, a
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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Go Set a Watchman

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Quotes by Harper Lee  (?)
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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.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Polls

April 2018 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

Persuasion by Jane Austen, 1817, 249 pages, Last Read Aug. 2015
 
  56 votes, 15.0%

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855, 521 pages, Last Read June 2015
 
  45 votes, 12.1%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 1961, 453 pages, Last Read Nov. 2013
 
  42 votes, 11.3%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960, 324 pages, Last Read 2016
 
  38 votes, 10.2%

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818, 273 pages, Last Read Oct. 2016
 
  37 votes, 9.9%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 1943, 496 pages, Last Read May 2013
 
  24 votes, 6.4%

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922, 422 pages, Last Read Jan. 2014
 
  24 votes, 6.4%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 1984, 320 pages, Last Read Dec. 2012
 
  22 votes, 5.9%

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 1847, 251 pages, Last Read Mar 2016
 
  22 votes, 5.9%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 1603, 316 pages, Last Read Oct. 2012
 
  21 votes, 5.6%

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, 1878, 448 pages, Last Read Oct. 2015
 
  15 votes, 4.0%

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, 1921, 752 pages, Last Read July 2012
 
  14 votes, 3.8%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847, 867 pages, Last Read Sep. 2011
 
  13 votes, 3.5%

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