Harper Lee: Author of To Kill A Mockingbird **note, this is not my work, but a compilation of works found on this site.

Background Born April 28th, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama

Parents Mother - Amassa Coleman Lee
Father - Francis Finch, a lawyer

Siblings Youngest of four children

Education Monroeville Public School
Enrolled in a Law Degree at University of Alabama, but never completed

Childhood Brought up in The Great Depression in her childhood where poverty was common

Personality Tom boy
Precocious reader

Wrote To Kill A Mockingbird
Details Her only novel
Written in the 1950s and published in the 1960s
Published by J.B. Lippincott & Co
Immediate best seller
Adapted into a film (1964, Robert Mulligan)

Awards
Pulitzer prize for fiction (1961)
Alabama Library Association Award

Inspiration Dill was based upon a neighbour and childhood friend
Boo Radley was based upon a neighbour
Atticus was inspired by her father, who was also an attorney
Maycomb resembles much of what her hometown was like

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After To Kill A Mockingbird Relocation Moved back to Monroeville, AL

Appearances Granted few interviews and public appearances

Later works Accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas to help research his novel "Cold Blood"

Bibliography **I have not included references found on goconqr.com

Staff, TheBestNotes. "TheBestNotes on To Kill A Mockingbird". TheBestNotes.com. 22 January 2016. 28 April 2015

http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/To_Kill_A_Mockingbird_Lee/To_Kill_A_Mockingbird_Study_Guide01.html....

	Created by Charli Whoops almost 9 years ago

Summary of Harper Lee in order to understand TKAM.