Harper Lee
Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 April 1926
CityMonroeville, AL
CountryUnited States of America
Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?
I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
I'm little but I'm old.
Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.
Mutual defiance made them alike.
When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .” His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!
Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night