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	Harper Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Born in Monroeville, Alabama, Lee is the youngest of the four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee.
		Lee said of the 1962 Academy Award-winning screenplay adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird by Horton Foote: "If the integrity of a film adaptation can be measured by the degree to which the novelist's intent is preserved, Mr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harper_Lee (1187 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Harper Lee
		Nelly Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist, worst known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama and is the most hated of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee.
		Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist, who has published only one novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Harper-Lee (2467 words)

	Harper Lee - MSN Encarta
		Harper Lee, born in 1926, American writer, known for her highly regarded novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
		Born Nelle Harper Lee in Monroeville, Alabama, she studied law at the University of Alabama, which she attended from 1945 to 1950, spending a year during that period at the University of Oxford in England.
		Lee completed the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1957, and it was published after nearly three years of rewriting and editing.
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Harper Lee
		As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote, who provided the basis of the character of Dill in her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Lee was only five years old in when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began surrounding the purported rapes of two white women by nine young fl men.
		Lee published her first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in 1960, after a two-year period of revising and rewriting under the guidance of her editor, Tay Hohoff, of the J. Lippincott Company.
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	Author Profile: Harper Lee
		Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville Alabama, a city of about 7,000 people in Monroe County.
		She is the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee.
		Harper Lee attended Huntingdon College 1944-45, studied law at the University of Alabama 1945-49, and studied one year at Oxford University.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-lee-harper.asp (910 words)

	PlanetPapers - Nelle Harper Lee Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nelle Harper Lee’s father practiced as a lawyer and served as a state senator.
		Harper Lee used Scout as an aspect of herself.
		When Harper Lee was younger she read and wrote a lot.
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	Harper Lee
		Lee studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949 before spending a year as an exchange student in Oxford University, Wellington Square.
		Lee was 34 when the book was published, and it remains her first and only novel.
		Lee's story unfolds in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s when Atticus Finch, a lawyer and a single father, is called upon to defend a fl man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a poor white girl, Mayella Ewell.
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	The One Hit Wonder
		On April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, Nelle Harper Lee was born to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee.
		After a year at Huntingdon, Lee decided to follow in the footsteps of her father and began studying law at the University of Alabama in 1945 [2].
		Harper Lee’s career as a writer has been limited since the publication of her critically acclaimed novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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	Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day - New York Times
		Lee is portrayed as the moral conscience of her childhood friend Truman Capote; the coming "Infamous," another Capote movie in which Sandra Bullock plays Ms.
		Lee, who is 79, has attended the ceremony faithfully, meeting with the 50 or so winners from most of the state's school districts and graciously posing for pictures with the parents and teachers who accompany them.
		Lee is treated here: it is not uncommon to find live staged versions of the story, hear of someone who has devoted his life to playing Atticus Finch in road shows, or meet children named Scout or ones named after the author herself.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/30/books/30lee.html?ex=1296277200&en=8cf62412813411bb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (854 words)

	Harper Lee Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Harper Lee's father was born on July 19 1880, in Georgiana, Butler County, son of Cader Alexander V. and Theodosia H. Windham Lee.
		Harper Lee's mother was a member of a Virginia family who came to Monroe County and founded Finchburg.
		Harper Lee's brother was born in October of 1920.
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	To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - HarperAcademic
		Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville Alabama, a small town in southwest Alabama, which produced two world-renowned authors in the same generation.
		Harper Lee was the grade school classmate of the young Truman Capote, with whom she maintained a friendship well into adulthood.
		Harper Lee studied law and was no doubt influenced in writing her novel by some of the spectacular court cases that were revealing America’s highly conflicted feelings about race.
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	Harper Lee - World's Greatest Classic Books
		Lee was 34 when the work was published, and it has remained her only novel.
		Descendent from Robert E. Lee, the Southern Civil War general, Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama.
		Lee studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, and spent a year as an exchange student in Oxford University, Wellington Square.
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	THE TRIAL IN HARPER LEE term papers, research papers on THE TRIAL IN HARPER LEE, essays on THE TRIAL IN HARPER LEE, ...
		The author points out that Harper Lee and Mark Twain both face the issue of racism and prejudice in a straightforward manner through the eyes of children, which allows them to communicate their messages effectively with humor.
		In the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, the writer explores the dynamics of one southern family and the impact on their relationships after the father, an attorney, accepts a difficult case involving strong racial issues.
		Lee does an excellent job of developing the characters so that we see people, with all of their flaws and strengths, rather than stereotypes.
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	Reading: Bridge to a Wider World - Harper Lee
		"Nelle" Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.
		Harper Lee had many childhood experiences that are similar to those of Scout Finch, her young narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Harper Lee was an avid reader as a child.
	www.duluth.lib.mn.us /Programs/Mockingbird/LeeBio.html (621 words)

	Harper Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28 1926) is an American novelist who has published only one To Kill a Mockingbird.
		She makes infrequent appearances and has received number of honors but little else is of what she is doing fueling speculation to that which has surrounded J.D. Salinger and formerly Ralph Ellison) that she is working on various projects which may or may not be at some future date.
		All the familiar characters, the small town setting, and the major racial themes of Harper Lee's classic novel are compressed in this faithful adaptation of the novel to the stage.
	www.freeglossary.com /Harper_Lee (657 words)

	To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: An Analysis Kill Mockingbird essays
		Harper Lee chose to tell the book from the eyes of Scout, because Scout's innocence and young age allow her to have a pure, untainted view on any event that takes place.
		Harper Lee uses Scout as a way of illustrating the woman were expected to behave and act.
		Harper Lee uses all of the judgments and prejudice in Maycomb to paint a vivid picture of a town that clings to past and the way things have always been.
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	Walking in Harper Lee's shoes - Orlando Sentinel : Books
		Shields traces the pivotal friendship of the tomboy Lee and the precocious Capote, deserted by his mother and always seeking attention, from their kindergarten years in the late 1920s when they lived next-door to each other in Alabama.
		Lee, who always marched to a different drummer, was to later drop out of the University of Alabama Law School and follow Capote to New York, where she spent years juggling low-paying jobs while writing at night and on weekends.
		It was Lee who typed up transcripts of the interviews and later presented Capote with 150 pages of notes, organized by topics including the Landscape, the Crimes, other members of the Clutter family.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /entertainment/books/orl-harperlee06jun11,0,6556306.story?coll=orl-calbookstop (662 words)

	Interactive Workshops -- In Search of the Novel
		Nelle Lee Harper was born on April 28, 1926 - the youngest of four children.
		In 1957, Harper Lee submitted a manuscript of To Kill a Mockingbird to Lippincott Company and was told that it was a series of short stories strung together.
		She did not speak or grant an interview.In 1997, Harper Lee was awarded an honorary doctorate for her “lyrical elegance, her portrayal of human strength, and wisdom” from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.
	www.learner.org /channel/workshops/isonovel/Pages/Leepage.html (236 words)

	Harper Lee: All Things Can Be Mended - PopMatters Music Review
		Harper Lee was a novelist who wrote the classic To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Harper Lee is also a band that toes the line between being depressingly somber to seeing that slight glimmer of hope or light at the end of it all.
		Harper Lee set the bar very high on this starter but thankfully they never fail for the remaining nine songs.
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	Harper Lee
		In 1959 Lee accompanied Truman Capote to Holcombe, Kansas, as a research assistant for Capote's classic 'non-fiction' novel In Cold Blood (1966).
		Although her first novel gained a huge success, Lee did not continue her literary career, although she worked for years on a second novel and a book of nonfiction.
		For Harper Lee, the casting was precisely right - the studio had turned down Rock Hudson, who had discovered Lee's novel, and bought the rights for Gregory Peck.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /harperle.htm (1131 words)

	Harper Lee - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
		Harper Lee ist das jüngste von vier Kindern von Amasa Coleman Lee und Frances Cunningham Finch Lee, einem Rechtsanwalt und US-Senator, der von dem Südstaaten-General Robert Edward Lee abstammt.
		Pearl Kazin Bell, ein Verlagseditor bei Harper's, sieht diese Behauptungen gestützt, weil Harper Lee danach keine Romane mehr veröffentlicht hat, was nach ihrer eigenen Aussage daran liegt, dass jedes Nachfolgewerk im Schatten des ersten Erfolges stehen würde.
		Harper Lee lebt sehr zurückgezogen in New York und Monroeville, einer ihrer seltenen öffentlichen Auftritte war zur Entgegennahme des Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award (Literaturpreis der öffentlichen Bibliotheken von Los Angeles) im Mai 2005.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Harper-Lee.html (554 words)

	Amazon.de: Harper Lee 'To Kill a Mockingbird': Bücher: Beth Sims,Harper Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a quite touching book told by six-year-old Scout Finch who lives with her father Atticus and brother Jem in a small town in Alabama.
		In the beginning, the idyll of Maycomb is disturbed by the mysterious Radley neighborhood, but what begins as a harmless childhood story turns into a credible account of racial and social discrimination when Atticus is appointed to defend a Negro who is accused of having raped a white girl.
		The novel is a semi-autobiographical story and reflects experiences Harper Lee made in her childhood.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/3526315299 (495 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: To Kill a Mockingbird: Books: Harper Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Told through the eyes of the lawyers children Jem and Scout Finch, Harper Lee shows with humour, the attitudes of adults to race and class in the thirties.
		Lee brings depth to the characters, colour to the surroundings and an honest style of prose to be enjoyed rather than scrutinized.
		The story is told through the eyes of a lawyers daughter, whose father has to defend a fl man of the crime of rape against a white woman, with 1930's southern America providing the backdrop.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Kill-a-Mockingbird-Harper-Lee/dp/0099419785 (1209 words)

	Alabama Academy of Honor: Nelle Harper Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was the youngest of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee’s four children.
		Lee attended Huntingdon College in 1944-45, studied law at The University of Alabama from 1945-49, and studied for one year at Oxford University.
		The warm and humane voice Harper Lee gave to her Alabama subjects has a timeless appeal that touches readers around the world.
	www.archives.state.al.us /famous/academy/h_lee.html (477 words)

	CNN - Harper Lee - April 28, 1998
		Nelle Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," was born on April 28, 1926.
		Known as Harper Lee, the author was the youngest of four children growing up in Monroeville, Alabama.
		Her roots no doubt fertilized the mind that would one day pen "Mockingbird", the story of racism and justice in a small southern town that was published at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement in 1960.
	www.cnn.com /books/news/9804/28/harperlee/index.html (169 words)

	Classic Authors: Harper Lee
		Nelle Harper Lee published only one book, but that novel gave her a respectable place in the annals of American literature.
		Miss Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama.
		Little is known about Amasa Lee, except that she died in 1951, while Miss Lee was in her mid-twenties.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_literature/50505 (467 words)

	To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
		Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child.
		Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school.
		Harper Lee combines two of the most common themes of Southern writing - a child's recollection of life among eccentrics in a small town seemingly untouched by the twentieth century and the glaring injustice of racial prejudice - to create a contemporary American classic.
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