Harper Lee (1926–2016)
Autor(a) de To Kill a Mockingbird
About the Author
Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926. She studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, and spent a year as an exchange student in Oxford University, Wellington Square. She moved to New York where she worked as an airlines reservations clerk while mostrar mais pursuing a literary career. In 1959, she accompanied Truman Capote to Holcombe, Kansas, as a research assistant for Capote's novel In Cold Blood. Her first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. The book was adapted as a feature film in 1962 and a London stage play in 1987. Her second book, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. She died on February 19, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird [Lingua inglese] 270 exemplares
To kill a mockingbird (Harper Perennial modern classics) 14 exemplares
Avem Occidere Mimicam: To Kill a Mockingbird Translated into Latin for the First Time by Andrew Wilson (2019) 13 exemplares
Wer die Nachtigall stört / Morgens um sieben ist die Welt noch in Ordnung / Ich hörte die Eule, sie rief meinen Nam (1998) 2 exemplares
Wer die Nachtigall stört ..., Kapitel 167 2 exemplares
To Kill a Mockingbird 1 exemplar
To Kill a Mockingbird 1 exemplar
Cornelsen Senior English Library - Literatur - Ab 11. Schuljahr: To Kill a Mockingbird - Textband mit Annotationen als… (2016) 1 exemplar
Go Set a Watchman : A Novel 1 exemplar
Είναι αμαρτία να σκοτώνεις αηδόνι 1 exemplar
සුදු කළු 1 exemplar
1974 1 exemplar
Lee, Harper Archive 1 exemplar
To Kill a Mockingbird, GLENCOE LITERATURE LIBRARY STUDY GUIDE (Teaching Strategies, background, and suggested… (1999) 1 exemplar
In Context: To Kill a Mockingbird 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Reader's Digest Best Sellers: To Kill a Mockingbird | Agony and the Ecstasy | Winter of our Discontent | Fate is the… (1961) 39 exemplares
Reader's Digest Best Sellers: To Kill a Mockingbird | Shoes of the Fisherman | Seven Days in May | To Catch an Angel (1963) 26 exemplares
[Author Harper Lee holding large tire swing with Mary Badham reclining inside, during break in filming of "To kill a… 9 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Mistress of Mellyn • Surface at the Pole • Good-bye, Mr. Chips • The F.B.I.… (1962) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Madame Curie; Die laatste zomer; Spaar de spotvogels; De meute — Autor — 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Lee, Nelle Harper
- Data de nascimento
- 1926-04-28
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-02-19
- Localização do túmulo
- Hillcrest Cemetery, Monroeville, Alabama, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Monroeville, Alabama, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Monroeville, Alabama, USA
- Locais de residência
- Monroeville, Alabama, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Educação
- Huntingdon College
University of Alabama
Oxford University
Monroe County High School - Ocupações
- novelist
reservation clerk - Relações
- Capote, Truman (friend)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2007)
National Council of Arts - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Mount Holyoke College ( [1962])
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007)
National Humanities Medal (2010) - Agente
- Maurice Crain
Annie Laurie Williams
Alice Lee
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Discussions
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE em 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (Abril 2017)
Harper Lee em Legacy Libraries (Fevereiro 2016)
Harper Lee's new release- Will you read it? em Girlybooks (Fevereiro 2016)
Go Set a Watchman release day em Book talk (Julho 2015)
Recommendations on Go Set a Watchman? em Talk about LibraryThing (Julho 2015)
Harper Lee publishing 2nd novel em Book talk (Fevereiro 2015)
To Kill a Mockingbird Group Read em 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (Abril 2013)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 42
- Also by
- 11
- Membros
- 89,104
- Popularidade
- #115
- Avaliação
- 4.3
- Críticas
- 1,879
- ISBN
- 463
- Línguas
- 34
- Marcado como favorito
- 241
Trigger warnings: Assault mentioned, racism, sexism, racist and sexist slurs, gun and knife violence, animal death
Score: Two points out of ten.
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I didn't enjoy To Kill a Mockingbird at any point in the book. I saw this one circling my recommendations, making me want to read it. When I discovered my library had this, I immediately wanted to pick it up. Soon enough, it was time to read it, and I initially thought it would be enjoyable, but it wasn't.
Spoilers ahead. I've warned you.
To Kill a Mockingbird ignores the fact that Black people and other minorities stood up for themselves to stop injustice and instead sends a message that only white people can stop racism for them. I would've liked the characters if they didn't play the white saviour. All I see is racism from the white perspective, and never hear from any of the Black characters. The last 100 pages weren't much better as all the characters in this fictional composition reflect on what happened, but not before one of them delivers a speech on colourblindness and how race doesn't matter and they are all only people.
To summarise, this piece of fiction from the author initially seemed promising, but when I closed its final page, I felt disgusted. You can read other books concerning discrimination like The Hate U Give instead of this.