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 Nelle...

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 version...

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 version...

Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird gives an accurate reflection of race relations in the Southern United States during the 1930s. The novel, set around a single-father family in small-town Alabama, contains a vast array of symbolism to...

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 1960 Introduction To Kill a Mockingbird is the Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of prejudice in a small Alabama town. The novel was published in 1960 as the civil rights movement was gathering momentum and is set...

To Killa Mockingbird by Harper Lee Adescendant of the renowned Southern general Robert E. Lee, (Nelle) Harper Lee was born in 1926 to Frances Finch Lee and Amasa Coleman, a lawyer. She lived with her family in the small Alabama town of Monroeville....

To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. Due to the multiple themes addressed in the novel, it has the genre characteristics of a bildungsroman and a Southern gothic. Upon its release, it became instantly...

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...

Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" and Bernice on "Designing Women," has died. She was 81.Ghostley died Friday at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer and a series of strokes,...

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...

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,...

In the following essay, Chura discusses the representation of race and justice in To Kill a Mockingbird in the historical context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s.

In the following essay, Lubet questions the standard perception of Atticus Finch as a role model for lawyers. Lubet provides an analysis of the trial portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird from the perspective of today's legal defense methods and ethics, particularly in regard to rape trials.

In the following essay, Crespino examines popular and critical responses to the representation of race and justice in To Kill a Mockingbird between the years 1960 and 2000.

Provides a literary analysis of "To Kill a Mockingbird," a novel by Harper Lee. Details the plot. Analyzes quotes from the text.

Evaluates the relationships between major characters in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird. Discusses the various types of conflicts experienced between the characters and discusses how this affects the plot of the novel.

Essay provides a summary of Chapters 1-31 of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird."