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Harper Lee, bürgerlich Nelle Lee, war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Pulitzer-Preisträgerin. Ihr bis zum Juli einziges veröffentlichtes Buch Wer die Nachtigall stört verkaufte sich über 40 Millionen Mal. Harper Lee, bürgerlich Nelle Lee (* April in Monroeville, Alabama; † Februar ebenda), war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und. Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep. Harper Lee ( bis ) war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin. Berühmt wurde sie durch den mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichneten Roman»To. Harper Lee, geboren in Monroeville, studierte Jura an der University of Alabama, zog nach New York und begann zu schreiben. Sie war. Beliebtestes Buch: Wer die Nachtigall stört Der Vater von Harper Lee war Rechtsanwalt. Auch sie studierte nach ihrer Schulzeit Jura an der. Aber bediente Harper Lee rassistische Klischees? Filmstill To Kill a Mockingbird (picture-.
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More about the author Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama in Wie die kleine Scout im Roman war Nelle Lee ein wildes und jungenhaftes Kind, das seine Overalls nur ungern gegen ein Kleid eintauschte. Nadat de breuk hersteld was en Jems angst dat hij nooit meer football zou kunnen spelen was gestild, dacht hij er nog maar zelden aan. Abends schrieb sie an ihrem ersten Roman. Allerdings drängte sich dieser Gedanke mir geradezu auf, als ich das Ende ein zweites Mal gelesen habe. Das Manuskript wurde jedoch von Lippincott, der Nelle Die Frau Des Zeitreisenden Stream auch den Künstlernamen Harper vorschlug, und der Lektorin Tay Hohoff als noch nicht veröffentlichungswürdig angesehen. Ziemlich deutlich machte sie, dass von ihr keine weiteren Bücher Avatar Der Herr Der Elemente Kinox Program Tv 1 seien. Februar im Alter von 89 Jahren.
The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the s, as depicted through the eyes of two children.
It was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. She also wrote the novel Go Set a Watchman in the mids and published it in July as a sequel to Mockingbird , but it was later confirmed to be merely her first draft of Mockingbird.
William W. Harper, of Selma , who saved the life of her sister Louise. Before A. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper.
Both clients, a father, and son, were hanged. While enrolled at Monroe County High School , Lee developed an interest in English literature, in part because teacher Gladys Watson became her mentor.
After graduating from high school in , [8] like her eldest sister Alice Finch Lee, Nelle attended the then all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for a year, then transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa , where, she studied law for several years.
Nelle Lee also wrote for the university newspaper and a humor magazine, but to her father's great disappointment, left one semester before completing the credit hours necessary for a degree.
I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers, but at the same time I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.
In , Lee moved to New York City and took a job—first at a bookstore, then as an airline reservation agent, in order to write in her spare time.
The following month, at Michael Brown 's East 50th Street townhouse, friends gave Nelle a gift of a year's wages with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please.
Merry Christmas. In the spring of , a year-old Lee delivered the manuscript for Go Set a Watchman to Crain to send out to publishers, including the now-defunct J.
Lippincott Company , which eventually bought it. Hohoff was impressed. It was, as she described it, "more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel".
Supreme Court had issued its school desegregation decisions in Brown v. Board of Education in , and the civil rights movement as well as the segregationist " massive resistance " strategy made headlines across the nation.
Like many unpublished authors, Lee was unsure of her talents. One winter night, as Charles J. Shields recounts in Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee , Lee threw her manuscript out her window and into the snow, before calling Hohoff in tears.
Shields recollected that "Tay told her to march outside immediately and pick up the pages". When the novel was finally ready, the author opted to use the name "Harper Lee", rather than risk having her first name Nelle be misidentified as "Nellie".
Published July 11, , To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in It remains a bestseller, with more than 30 million copies in print.
Like Lee, the tomboy Scout of the novel is the daughter of a respected small-town Alabama attorney. Scout's friend, Dill, was inspired by Lee's childhood friend and neighbor, Truman Capote ; [11] Lee, in turn, is the model for a character in Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms , published in Although the plot of Lee's novel involves an unsuccessful legal defense similar to one undertaken by her attorney father, the landmark Scottsboro Boys interracial rape case may also have helped to shape Lee's social conscience.
While Lee herself downplayed autobiographical parallels in the book, Truman Capote, mentioning the character Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird , described details he considered autobiographical: "In my original version of Other Voices, Other Rooms I had that same man living in the house that used to leave things in the trees, and then I took that out.
He was a real man, and he lived just down the road from us. We used to go and get those things out of the trees.
Everything she wrote about it is absolutely true. But you see, I take the same thing and transfer it into some Gothic dream, done in an entirely different way.
Lee lived part-time for 40 years at East 82nd Street in Manhattan , near her childhood friend Capote, [26] whose first novel, the semi-autobiographical Other Voices, Other Rooms had been published in ; a decade later Capote published Breakfast at Tiffany's , and over the next decade it would become a film, musical and two stage plays.
As the To Kill a Mockingbird manuscript went into publication production in , Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas , to help him research what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer and his family.
Capote would expand the material into his best-selling book, In Cold Blood , serialized beginning in September and published in To Kill a Mockingbird officially appeared on July 11, , and Lee began a whirlwind of publicity tours, etc.
As the book became a best seller, Freedom Riders arrived in Alabama and were beaten in Anniston and Birmingham.
Lee helped with the adaption of the book to the Academy Award —winning screenplay by Horton Foote , and approved of the result: "I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made.
Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch , the father of the novel's narrator, Scout. The families became close; Peck's grandson, Harper Peck Voll, is named after her.
Initially, Lee tried to answer personally correspondence from fans, but when she began receiving more than 60 letters daily, she realized the demands on her time were too great.
Her sister Alice became her lawyer, and Lee obtained an unlisted telephone number to reduce distractions from many people seeking interviews or public appearances.
From the time of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird until her death in , Lee granted almost no requests for interviews or public appearances and, with the exception of a few short essays, published nothing further until She did work on a follow-up novel— The Long Goodbye —but eventually filed it away unfinished.
Lee also assumed significant care responsibilities for her father, who was thrilled with her success, and even began signing autographs as "Atticus Finch".
She decided to spend more time in New York City as she mourned, but over the decades her friend Capote became embroiled in a flamboyant jet-set lifestyle far from her preference for anonymity and a more spartan lifestyle.
Lee preferred to visit friends at their homes though she came to distance herself from those who criticized her drinking , [27] and also made unannounced appearances at libraries or other gatherings, particularly in Monroeville.
In January , President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Lee to the National Council on the Arts. Lee also realized that her book had become controversial, particularly with segregationists and other opponents of the civil rights movement.
In , Lee wrote a letter to the editor in response to the attempts of a Richmond, Virginia , area school board to ban To Kill a Mockingbird as "immoral literature":.
Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that To Kill a Mockingbird spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners.
To hear that the novel is 'immoral' has made me count the years between now and , for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.
James J. Kilpatrick , editor of The Richmond News Leader , started the Beadle Bumble fund to pay fines for victims of what he termed "despots on the bench".
He built the fund using contributions from readers and later used it to defend books as well as people. After the board in Richmond ordered schools to dispose of all copies of To Kill a Mockingbird , Kilpatrick wrote, "A more moral novel scarcely could be imagined.
Beginning in , with her sisters' encouragement, Lee returned to Alabama and began a factual book about an Alabama serial murderer and the trial of his killer in Alexander City , under the working title The Reverend , but also put it aside when she was not satisfied.
On May 7, , Lee wrote a letter to Oprah Winfrey published in O, The Oprah Magazine in July about her love of books as a child and her dedication to the written word: "Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
While attending an August 20, , ceremony inducting four members into the Alabama Academy of Honor , Lee declined an invitation to address the audience, saying: "Well, it's better to be silent than to be a fool.
On November 5, , George W. Bush presented Lee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is the highest civilian award in the United States and recognizes individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors".
In , President Barack Obama awarded Lee the National Medal of Arts , the highest award given by the United States government for "outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts".
In a interview with an Australian newspaper, Rev. Thomas Lane Butts said Lee now lived in an assisted-living facility, wheelchair-bound, partially blind and deaf, and suffering from memory loss.
Butts also shared that Lee told him why she never wrote again: "Two reasons: one, I wouldn't go through the pressure and publicity I went through with To Kill a Mockingbird for any amount of money.
Lippincott in October She then continued to work on the manuscript for the next two years, submitting revised manuscripts to her literary agents.
At some point in that two-year period, Lee renamed her book To Kill a Mockingbird. Some of these records have been copied and posted online. The manuscript for the novel was originally thought to be lost.
According to The New York Times , the typed manuscript of Go Set a Watchman was first found during an appraisal of Lee's assets in in a safe deposit box in Lee's hometown of Monroeville.
Later, upon learning in the middle of of the existence of a second novel at a family gathering, she then re-examined Lee's safe-deposit box and found the manuscript for Go Set a Watchman.
Lee released a statement through her attorney in regards to the discovery. It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort.
My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout.
I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it.
After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication.
I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years. Some publications have called the timing of the book "suspicious", citing Lee's declining health, statements she had made over several decades that she would not write or release another novel, and the recent death of her sister and caregiver —two months before the announcement.
Investigators for the state of Alabama interviewed Lee in response to a suspicion of elder abuse in relation to the publication of the book.
Historian and Lee's longtime friend Wayne Flynt told the Associated Press that the "narrative of senility, exploitation of this helpless little old lady is just hogwash.
It's just complete bunk. In her piece for The Washington Post "The Harper Lee I knew", [9] she quotes Lee's sister Alice, whom she describes as "gatekeeper, advisor, protector" for most of Lee's adult life, as saying "Poor Nelle Harper can't see and can't hear and will sign anything put before her by anyone in whom she has confidence.
She describes Lee as "in a wheelchair in an assisted living center, nearly deaf and blind, with a uniformed guard posted at the door" and her visitors "restricted to those on an approved list".
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera continues this argument. They say she knew full well that it was the same one submitted to Lippencott in the '50s that was reworked into Mockingbird , and that Carter had been sitting on the discovery, waiting for the moment when she, and not Alice, would be in charge of Harper Lee's affairs.
He quotes Lee herself from one of her last interviews in where she said "I think the thing that I most deplore about American writing—is a lack of craftsmanship.
It comes right down to this—the lack of absolute love for language, the lack of sitting down and working a good idea into a gem of an idea.
That HarperCollins decided instead to manufacture a phony literary event isn't surprising. It's just sad.
Others have questioned the context of the book's release, not in matters of consent, but that it has been publicized as a sequel as opposed to an unedited first draft.
It was simply regarded as a first draft. Anxious as we all were to get another book from Harper Lee, it was a decision we all supported.
Brilliant Books, an independent bookstore in Michigan, made headlines by offering full refunds to customers who felt duped by the marketing of the book, calling it "shameful" and "exploitative".
They released a statement shortly after Go Set a Watchman was released, comparing the book to James Joyce 's Stephen Hero and condemning its publication.
Go Set a Watchman received mixed reviews. Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times described Atticus' characterization as "shocking", as he "has been affiliating with raving anti-integration, anti-black crazies, and the reader shares [Scout's] horror and confusion".
She defends the novel as a "pretty honest confession of what it was to grow up a whip-smart, outspoken, thinking white woman in the south Entertainment Weekly panned the book as "a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird " and said, "Though Watchman has a few stunning passages, it reads, for the most part, like a sluggishly-paced first draft, replete with incongruities, bad dialogue, and underdeveloped characters".
Go Set a Watchman is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a good, or even a finished book. For the first pages it lacks anything that could even charitably be described as a plot.
I flung the book down and groaned audibly and I almost did not pick it back up even though I knew I had fewer than pages to go.
This should not have been published. If you were anywhere in the vicinity of me when I was reading the thing, you heard a horrible bellowing noise, followed by the sound of a book being angrily tossed down.
Author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that "Harper Lee was a good writer. She wrote a lovable, greatly beloved book. But this earlier one, for all its faults and omissions, asks some of the hard questions To Kill a Mockingbird evades.
Some translations of the novel have appeared. In the Finnish translation of the novel by Kristiina Drews, "nigger" is translated as if "negro" or "black" had been used.
Drews stated that she interpreted what was meant each time, and used vocabulary not offensive to black people.
In , the book won the primary Goodreads Choice Award. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The New York Times. Retrieved July 30, The Guardian.
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In , a year-old Lee arrived in New York City. In , the Browns gave Lee an impressive Christmas present—to support her for a year so that she could write full time.
She quit her job and devoted herself to her craft. The Browns also helped her find an agent, Maurice Crain. He, in turn, was able to get publisher J.
Lippincott Company interested in her work. Working with editor Tay Hohoff, Lee worked on a manuscript set in a small Alabama town, which eventually became her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Tougher than many of the boys, Lee often stepped up to serve as Truman's childhood protector. Truman, who shared few interests with boys his age, was picked on for being sensitive and for the fancy clothes he wore.
While the two friends were very different, they both had difficult home lives. Truman was living with his mother's relatives in town after largely being abandoned by his own parents.
While in New York City in the s, Lee was reunited with her old friend Capote, who was by then one of the literary rising stars of the time.
In , Lee joined forces with Capote to assist him with an article he was writing for The New Yorker.
Capote was writing about the impact of the murder of four members of the Clutter family on their small Kansas farming community.
The two traveled to Kansas to interview townspeople, friends and family of the deceased and the investigators working to solve the crime. Serving as his research assistant, Lee helped with the interviews, eventually winning over some of the locals with her easygoing, unpretentious manner.
Truman, with his flamboyant personality and style, had a hard time initially getting himself into his subjects' good graces.
During their time in Kansas, the Clutters' suspected killers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, were caught in Las Vegas and brought back for questioning.
Lee and Capote got a chance to interview the suspects not long after their arraignment in January Soon after, Lee and Capote returned to New York. She worked on the galleys for her forthcoming first novel while he started working on his article, which would evolve into the nonfiction masterpiece In Cold Blood.
The pair returned to Kansas for the murder trial. Lee gave Capote all of her notes on the crime, the victims, the killers, the local communities and much more.
Lee worked with Capote on and off on In Cold Blood. She had been invited by Smith and Hickock to witness their execution in , but she declined.
When Capote's book was finally published in , a rift developed between the two collaborators for a time.
Capote dedicated the book to Lee and his longtime lover, Jack Dunphy, but failed to acknowledge her contributions to the work.
While Lee was very angry and hurt by this betrayal, she remained friends with Capote for the rest of his life.
She also worked on and off with her friend Capote on his famed book, In Cold Blood A condensed version of the story appeared in Reader's Digest magazine.
The following year, the novel won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and several other literary awards. A classic of American literature, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages with more than a million copies sold each year.
The work's central character, a young girl nicknamed Scout, was not unlike Lee in her youth. In one of the book's major plotlines, Scout and her brother Jem and their friend Dill explore their fascination with a mysterious and somewhat infamous neighborhood character named Boo Radley.
The work was more than a coming-of-age story: another part of the novel reflected racial prejudices in the South.
Their attorney father, Atticus Finch, tries to help a Black man who has been charged with raping a white woman to get a fair trial and to prevent him from being lynched by angry white people in a small town.
Lee published her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, in July Go Set a Watchman was submitted to a publisher in When the book wasn't accepted, Lee's editor asked her to revise the story and make her main character Scout a child.
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Harper Lee's Only Recorded Interview About 'To Kill A Mockingbird' [AUDIO] She soon moved north to follow her dreams to become a writer. Atticus Finch. Her uncle tells her that Atticus was letting her break her idols so that she could reduce him to the status of a human being. Retrieved Nur Dein Herz Kennt Die Wahrheit Stream Deutsch 26, Author Harper Lee in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama in Tallulah Bankhead Elizabeth Johnston. Nach ihrem Weltbestseller "Wer die Nachtigall stört" vor 55 Jahren erscheint nun ein zweiter Roman der Schriftstellerin Harper Lee. Die Begleitumstände sind. Harper Lee. Harper Lee, in Monroeville geboren, studierte Jura an der University of Alabama, zog nach New York und begann zu schreiben. Wer die Nachtigall stort: auktion18.eu: Lee, Harper: Libros en idiomas extranjeros. harper lee books.Hohoff also references a more detailed characterization of the development process, found in the Lippincott corporate history: 'After a couple of false starts, the story-line, interplay of characters, and fall of emphasis grew clearer, and with each revision—there were many minor changes as the story grew in strength and in her own vision of it—the true stature of the novel became evident.
Hohoff wrote. In terms of the initial characterization of Atticus as a segregationist, an element to his character that was dropped in the later draft, there are various theories already offered.
Mahler offers that it could have been Hohoff that inspired the change. Such an upbringing suggests certain progressive values. But probably the clearest window into her state of mind when she was coaching Ms.
Lee through the rewrite of Mockingbird is the book she was writing herself at the time: a biography of John Lovejoy Elliott, a social activist and humanist in earlyth-century New York who had committed his life to helping the city's underclass.
The book, A Ministry to Man , was published in , one year before Mockingbird. Michiko Kakutani made note of the changes between the two versions: "Some plot points that have become touchstones in Mockingbird are evident in the earlier Watchman.
Scout's older brother, Jem, vividly alive as a boy in Mockingbird , is dead in Watchman ; the trial of a black man accused of raping a young white woman The trial results in a guilty verdict for the accused man, Tom Robinson, in Mockingbird , but leads to an acquittal in Watchman.
How did a distressing narrative filled with characters spouting hate speech from the casually patronizing to the disgustingly grotesque—and presumably meant to capture the extreme prejudice that could exist in small towns in the Deep South in the s mutate into a redemptive novel associated with the civil rights movement, hailed, in the words of the former civil rights activist and congressman Andrew Young , for giving us "a sense of emerging humanism and decency"?
Kakutani also goes on to describe that not only are characterizations and plot points different, the motivation behind the novel shifts as well, stating: "Somewhere along the way, the overarching impulse behind the writing also seems to have changed.
Watchman reads as if it were fueled by the alienation of a native daughter—who, like Lee, moved away from small-town Alabama to New York City—might feel upon returning home.
It seems to want to document the worst in Maycomb in terms of racial and class prejudice, the people's enmity and hypocrisy and small-mindedness.
At times, it also alarmingly suggests that the civil rights movement roiled things up, making people who "used to trust each other" now "watch each other like hawks".
According to Kakutani, " Mockingbird , in contrast, represents a determined effort to see both the bad and the good in small-town life, the hatred and the humanity; it presents an idealized father-daughter relationship which a relative in Watchman suggests has kept Jean Louise from fully becoming her own person and views the past not as something lost but as a treasured memory.
In a interview, Lee, whose own hometown is Monroeville, Ala. Their records show that Go Set a Watchman was an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird , and underwent significant changes in story and characters during the revision process.
Lippincott in October She then continued to work on the manuscript for the next two years, submitting revised manuscripts to her literary agents.
At some point in that two-year period, Lee renamed her book To Kill a Mockingbird. Some of these records have been copied and posted online.
The manuscript for the novel was originally thought to be lost. According to The New York Times , the typed manuscript of Go Set a Watchman was first found during an appraisal of Lee's assets in in a safe deposit box in Lee's hometown of Monroeville.
Later, upon learning in the middle of of the existence of a second novel at a family gathering, she then re-examined Lee's safe-deposit box and found the manuscript for Go Set a Watchman.
Lee released a statement through her attorney in regards to the discovery. It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort.
My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout.
I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it.
After much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication.
I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years. Some publications have called the timing of the book "suspicious", citing Lee's declining health, statements she had made over several decades that she would not write or release another novel, and the recent death of her sister and caregiver —two months before the announcement.
Investigators for the state of Alabama interviewed Lee in response to a suspicion of elder abuse in relation to the publication of the book.
Historian and Lee's longtime friend Wayne Flynt told the Associated Press that the "narrative of senility, exploitation of this helpless little old lady is just hogwash.
It's just complete bunk. In her piece for The Washington Post "The Harper Lee I knew", [9] she quotes Lee's sister Alice, whom she describes as "gatekeeper, advisor, protector" for most of Lee's adult life, as saying "Poor Nelle Harper can't see and can't hear and will sign anything put before her by anyone in whom she has confidence.
She describes Lee as "in a wheelchair in an assisted living center, nearly deaf and blind, with a uniformed guard posted at the door" and her visitors "restricted to those on an approved list".
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera continues this argument. They say she knew full well that it was the same one submitted to Lippencott in the '50s that was reworked into Mockingbird , and that Carter had been sitting on the discovery, waiting for the moment when she, and not Alice, would be in charge of Harper Lee's affairs.
He quotes Lee herself from one of her last interviews in where she said "I think the thing that I most deplore about American writing—is a lack of craftsmanship.
It comes right down to this—the lack of absolute love for language, the lack of sitting down and working a good idea into a gem of an idea. That HarperCollins decided instead to manufacture a phony literary event isn't surprising.
It's just sad. Others have questioned the context of the book's release, not in matters of consent, but that it has been publicized as a sequel as opposed to an unedited first draft.
It was simply regarded as a first draft. Anxious as we all were to get another book from Harper Lee, it was a decision we all supported.
Brilliant Books, an independent bookstore in Michigan, made headlines by offering full refunds to customers who felt duped by the marketing of the book, calling it "shameful" and "exploitative".
They released a statement shortly after Go Set a Watchman was released, comparing the book to James Joyce 's Stephen Hero and condemning its publication.
Go Set a Watchman received mixed reviews. Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times described Atticus' characterization as "shocking", as he "has been affiliating with raving anti-integration, anti-black crazies, and the reader shares [Scout's] horror and confusion".
She defends the novel as a "pretty honest confession of what it was to grow up a whip-smart, outspoken, thinking white woman in the south Entertainment Weekly panned the book as "a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird " and said, "Though Watchman has a few stunning passages, it reads, for the most part, like a sluggishly-paced first draft, replete with incongruities, bad dialogue, and underdeveloped characters".
Go Set a Watchman is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a good, or even a finished book. For the first pages it lacks anything that could even charitably be described as a plot.
I flung the book down and groaned audibly and I almost did not pick it back up even though I knew I had fewer than pages to go.
This should not have been published. If you were anywhere in the vicinity of me when I was reading the thing, you heard a horrible bellowing noise, followed by the sound of a book being angrily tossed down.
It has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Its powerful depiction of prejudice in the American South was widely acclaimed.
Harper Lee studied law at the University of Alabama, but she did not receive a degree. She was also an exchange student at the University of Oxford.
She also wrote essays on Alabama history. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Harper Lee is the daughter of Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer who was by all accounts apparently rather like the hero-father of her novel in his sound citizenship and warmheartedness.
The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird is based in part on his unsuccessful youthful defense of two African American men convicted of murder.
Lee studied law at the University of Alabama spending a summer as an exchange student at Oxford but left for New York City without earning a degree.
In New York she worked as an airline reservationist but soon received financial aid from friends that allowed her to write full-time.
With the help of an editor, she transformed a series of short stories into To Kill a Mockingbird.
Scout and her brother, Jem, learn the principles of racial justice and open-mindedness from their father, whose just and compassionate acts include an unpopular defense of a Black man falsely accused of raping a white girl.
To Kill a Mockingbird received a Pulitzer Prize in and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Criticism of its tendency to sermonize has been matched by praise of its insight and stylistic effectiveness.
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