The men were convicted and hanged, and their bodies mutilated by an angry mob Lee’s father never tried another criminal case. Her own father was an attorney, who defended two black men accused of murder in 1919. To Kill a Mockingbird is not autobiographical, but there are elements of Lee’s life in it.
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Through the events of the trial and her aftermath, Scout begins to understand the racism of the world around her, and the strength of her father’s character. Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, is an attorney who has been appointed to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman.
The story is told by six-year-old Jean Louise (nicknamed “Scout”), in a narrative voice that combines the directness and innocence of childhood with the wisdom and understanding of the adult Scout looking back at her past. The novel is set during the Great Depression, in a small Alabama town. When Lee finally produced a version of her novel that pleased the publisher, Lippincott suggested the title Atticus Lee thought that made the book sound too much like a character study, and they agreed on the title To Kill a Mockingbird ( e-book | e-audio | print | audio). The Lippincott editors were impressed with the skill Lee displayed in what she was then calling Go Set a Watchman-we will return to that title, and that draft, a bit later-but told her that there was still a lot of work needed. Lee made good use of that time, and delivered the first draft of a novel to Lippincott Publishers in late 1957. Lee’s friends pooled their resources to give her an extraordinary Christmas gift-a year’s wages so that she would have uninterrupted time for writing. By 1956, she had enough material to show to a literary agent, who encouraged her to continue writing, and suggested that there might be a novel somewhere in the pieces she’d already written. She studied law at the University of Alabama, then moved to New York in 1950, where she began writing essays and stories about her childhood in Monroeville. Lee was born in 1926, and grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. The novel was an instant success, and quickly became a standard of American literature. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published on July 11, 1960.
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