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Biography

Name: Harper Lee
Variant Name: Nelle Harper Lee
Birth Date: April 28, 1926
Place of Birth: Monroeville, Alabama, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Harper Lee
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As a child, Harper Lee was "a rough 'n' tough tomboy.... She had short, cropped hair, wore coveralls, went barefoot, and could talk mean like a boy," according to Marianne M. Moates in A Bridge of Childhood: Truman Capote's Southern Years. Known as...
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Biography of Harper Lee
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Harper Lee's reputation as an author rests on her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). An enormous popular success, the book was selected for distribution by the Literary Guild and the Bookof- the-Month Club and was published in a shortened...
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Biography of (Nelle) Harper Lee
1,942 words, approx. 7 pages
Harper Lee's reputation as an author rests on her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). An enormous popular success, the book was selected for distribution by the Literary Guild and the Book-of-the-Month Club and was published in a shortened...
 


Quotations
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Harper Lee Quotes
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Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28 , 1926 ) is an American novelist and author of the classic 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird . Sourced Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Harper Lee Information
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Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only major work to date. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of United States for her contributions...


News and Journals
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Plummer to star as Caesar at Stratford
8/21/2007: 264 words, approx. 1 pages
George Bernard Shaw will join William Shakespeare next season at the Stratford Festival of Canada, with Christopher Plummer starring as Julius Caesar in a revival of Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra."Appearing opposite Plummer as a young queen of the Nile will be Anika Noni Rose, who...
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Bush names prestigious medal winners
10/29/2007: 345 words, approx. 1 pages
President Bush on Monday announced the recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.Those to be honored at a White House ceremony on Nov. 5 are:_ Gary Becker. The economist and 1992 Nobel Prize winner is being honored for broadening...
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Bush presents Medals of Freedom
11/5/2007: 375 words, approx. 1 pages
President Bush on Monday presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, to recognize contributions in science, the arts, literature and the cause of peace and freedom."Each of them, by effort and by character, has earned the respect of the American people,...
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'Mockingbird' school drama bridges gaps
1/11/2007: 797 words, approx. 3 pages
A high school play based on Harper Lee's classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" brought together black and white high school students to tell the classic story of racial injustice _ and even drew out the novel's reclusive author.Wednesday night's invitation-only performance was organized to celebrate...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Edwin Bruell
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Miss Lee does write like a woman. She paints Scout in warm tones, and we like the child. (p. 659) Miss Lee uses high and telling humor when she depicts the myopic do-gooders of the local missionary circle who alternately squealed and sighed over the remote plight of the Mrunas who were safely distant in the dark continent, the while they stirred up a falsely labeled "Christian" hell for the racially different in their home town. Yes, and there was cutting irony and blanched white sarcasm too w...
Featured Essays
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Analysis of the Writing Style of Harper Lee
759 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay analyzes the writing style of Harper Lee through his novel "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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Biography of Harper Lee, Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
493 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay discusses how Harper Lee used people, location, events in her life to write To Kill a Mockingbird.

To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee



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