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HARPER

LEE To kill a mockingbird

Harper Lee (28 April 1926, Monroeville, Alabama-)

Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist widely known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on her observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of two children. The novel was inspired by the racist attitudes she observed as a child in her hometown in Alabama. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literatura. Lee has received numerous honorary degrees, and declined to speak on each occasion. Lee assisted close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966).

In February 2015, Lee's lawyer released a statement confirming the publication of a second novel, Go Set a Watchman. Written in the mid 1950s, the book was controversially published in July 2015 as a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, though it has since been confirmed to be the first draft of the latter.

THE MOVIE

Gregory Peck and Brock Peters (1962)

CAST Gregory Peck: Atticus Finch Mary Badham: Jean Louise "Scout" Finch Phillip Alford: Jeremy "Jem" Finch John Megna: Charles Baker "Dill" Harris Brock Peters: Tom Robinson James Anderson: Robert E. Lee 'Bob' Ewell Collin Wilcox Paxton: Mayella Violet Ewell Robert Duvall: Arthur "Boo" Radley Estelle Evans: Calpurnia Rosemary Murphy: Maudie Atkinson

Academy Awards The film won three Academy Awards out of the eight for which it was nominated.

Academy Award for Best Actor — Gregory Peck (The award was presented to Peck by Sophia Loren) Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay – Horton Foote Academy Award for Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black-andWhite — (Henry Bumstead, Alexander Golitzen, and Oliver Emert) Other nominations were for Best Picture (Producer, Alan J. Pakula), Best Director (Robert Mulligan), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Russell Harlan), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mary Badham), and Best Music, Score — Substantially Original (Elmer Bernstein) Its main competition was Lawrence of Arabia, which won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Score. Peter O'Toole had been nominated for Best Actor for his performance as T. E. Lawrence, but Peck won for Mockingbird.

To kill a mockingbird (1960) The novel takes place in Alabama during the Depression, and is narrated by the main character, a little girl named Scout. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer with high moral standards.

Atticus decides to take on a case involving a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a white girl. He knows Tom is innocent, and also that he has almost no chance at being acquitted, because the white jury will never believe a black man over a white woman. Despite this, Atticus wants to reveal the truth to his fellow townspeople, expose their intolerance, and encourage them to imagine the possibility of racial equality.

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"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

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