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Harper Lee


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

Died
February 19, 2016

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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 ...more

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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
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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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“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.”
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A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) 123 pages last read Sept 2013
 
  19 votes, 21.8%

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934) 315 pages last read March 2018
 
  18 votes, 20.7%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980) 563 pages, last read June 2016
 
  12 votes, 13.8%

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952) 581 pages last read Oct 2016
 
  9 votes, 10.3%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) 324 pages, last read May 2016
 
  8 votes, 9.2%

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya
Angelou (pub 1969, 289 pp, last read Sept 2017)
 
  8 votes, 9.2%

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965) 343 pages, last read Nov 2016
 
  7 votes, 8.0%

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1847) 488 - the MPE is a critical edition right now.
 
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