Harper Lee-To Kill A Mockingbird
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HARPER LEE-TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD UNABRIDGED AUDIO BOOK
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Artist...............: Harper Lee
Album................: To Kill A Mockingbird
Year.................: 1960
Codec................: FhG
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 128kbps)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz
ID3-Tag v2...........: 2.3
Posted by............: Bob The Penguin
Covers...............: None
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Playing Time........: Approx. 13.5 hours
Total Size...........: 695 MB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
This semi-autobiographical fiction won a Pulitzer Prize for Harper Lee. Recreating
life in the depression-era South with all of it's social conventions and dilemmas,
She tells a story of a young girl growing and learning from the richness of her
surroundings, and the interpretive efforts of her father. While everything in the
story is seen through the eyes of Jean Louise Finch, her hero is clearly her father,
Atticus Finch. Atticus is a wonderful hero for his children, particularly in view of
the other role models available at the time.
I find it odd, but plausible, that a lawyer is made the principled, far-seeing leader
among the cast of characters. d:c) The author was truly privileged if her father
was remotely like Atticus Finch.
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About the Author
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances
Cunningham Finch Lee. Harper Lee grew up in the small southwestern Alabama town
of Monroeville. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer
who also served on the state legislature (1926-38). As a child, Lee was a tomboy
and a precocious reader, and she enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and
neighbor, the young Truman Capote, who provided the basis of the character of Dill
in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lee was only five years old in when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of
Scottsboro, the first trials began with regard to the purported rapes of two white
women by nine young black men. The defendants, who were nearly lynched before
being brought to court, were not provided with the services of a lawyer until the first
day of trial. Despite medical testimony that the women had not been raped, the all-white
jury found the men guilty of the crime and sentenced all but the youngest, a
twelve-year-old boy, to death. Six years of subsequent trials saw most of these
convictions repealed and all but one of the men freed or paroled. The Scottsboro case
left a deep impression on the young Lee, who would use it later as the rough basis for
the events in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lee studied first at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama (1944-45), and then
pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945-49), spending one year abroad at
Oxford University, England. She worked as a reservation clerk for Eastern Airlines in New
York City until the late 1950s, when she resolved to devote herself to writing. Lee lived a
frugal lifestyle, traveling between her cold-water-only apartment in New York to her family
home in Alabama to care for her ailing father. In addition, she worked in Holcombe, Kansas,
as a research assistant for Truman Capote's novel In Cold Blood in 1959. Ever since the
first days of their childhood friendship, Capote and Lee remained close friends.
Lee published her first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in 1960 after a two-year period
of revising and rewriting under the guidance of her editor, Tay Hohoff, of the J. B. Lippincott
Company. To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize despite mixed critical reviews.
The novel was highly popular, selling more than fifteen million copies. Though in composing
the novel she delved into her own experiences as a child in Monroeville, Lee intended that
the book impart the sense of any small town in the Deep South, as well as the universal
characteristics of human beings. The book was made into a successful movie in 1962, starring
Gregory Peck as Atticus.
President Johnson named Lee to the National Council of Arts in June 1966, and since then she
has received numerous honorary doctorates. She continues to live in New York and Monroeville
but prefers a relatively private existence, granting few interviews and giving few speeches. She
has published only a few short essays since her debut: "Love--In Other Words" in Vogue, 1961;
"Christmas to Me" in McCall's, 1961; and "When Children Discover America" in McCall's, 1965.
