Like Scout, Lee's father was an attorney who defended black men accused of crimes like Scout, Lee had a brother four years older.īut Lee has said that the novel wasn't intended to be autobiography-she was just trying to write what she knew. More than one critic has noticed some similarities between Scout and Lee herself-and between Scout's friend Dill and Lee's own childhood friend, Truman Capote. Author Harper Lee drew on her own childhood experience for the events of To Kill a Mockingbird. The story of a young girl confronting deep-seated prejudice, it pits a six-year-old Scout Finch and her (relatively) anti-racist family against the segregation of an American South in the grip of Jim Crow. In fact, we're guessing that might be what brought you here. Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, it's never been out of print, it leads at least one list of top-whatever books, and it's been a staple of middle- and high-school English classes for generations. If you're going to write a one-hit wonder you couldn't do much better than To Kill a Mockingbird.
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