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
summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,
Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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.
Let the dead bury the dead.
You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
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.
She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.