On Harper Lee’s birthday, we revisit the legacy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and the urgent lesson about justice and empathy ...

However, throughout To Kill a Mockingbird she has also chosen to look at the themes of family life and courage, which along with the theme of prejudice, can all be seen through the trial of Tom ...

At first, the story seems simple: Scout Finch’s rose-tinted memories of long, languid summers in the American deep south, and her idealised image of her father, Atticus, who acts as her moral ...

Mary Badham‘s legendary child performance as ‘Scout’ Finch in the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is one “profound” example of this — especially for Celia ...

To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1930s in the fictional ... as she navigates the complexities of racial injustice and moral growth in her community. Atticus, a lawyer, defends a black man ...

Harper Lee is the award-winning author of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926. As a young child, she witnessed prejudice, which initially ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fall. "The ...