Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author, dead at 89
Harper Lee, the whose debut novel, "To kill a mockingbird," immortalized his name in the history of justice and bred in a small town south and became a classic of American literature, has died. He was 89.
Her death was confirmed Friday in Hall enjoyable, Alabama, where he lived.
"Mockingbird," published in 1960, was derived from elements of his childhood in Lee enjoyable, Alabama. In the steady prose shadowed by memory and lyricism, describes how an impulsive girl, Scout Finch, the older brother Jem, their friend Dill and various other townspeople get caught when Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape in the Depression-era town of Maycomb, Alabama.
Through it all, without character is more indelible than the Scout is widowed father, Atticus Finch. The lawyer meticulous, fair, who defends the accused falsely Robinson in a racist hall a model for the kindness and bravery that still resonates more than 50 years later.
"I want to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand," Atticus tells Scout to a point. "This is when you know you're licked before you begin but anyway will start and you can see through it no matter what."
The book won the Pulitzer Prize, and Gregory Peck, who played Atticus acclaimed 1962 film, won an Oscar for Best Actor. Finch was named the greatest character in film history in a survey of the American Film Institute, 2003. His fame is such that a poll of 2010 by the American Bar Association magazine was titled "The 25 greatest fictional lawyers (not Atticus Finch).»
An earlier draft of the book, titled "Gone set to guard," published in 2015. The book was criticized for a different portrayal of Atticus, who voices racist feelings, and questions were raised as to whether Lee really wanted it released .
Differences between «Mockingbird,» «Guard»
Despite mixed reviews, the book was one of the top sellers of 2015.
In all these, Lee maintain a low profile. He helped his friend Truman Capote, the basis for the dill, and the researched his novel "In Cold Blood," and although that was revealed in praise and fortune that comes with fame, that it resisted.
"I never expected any sort of success with« Mockingbird »», said critic Roy Newquist an interview published in 1964. "I did not expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers, but at the same time kind of hoping that maybe someone will like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I was hoping for a bit, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in a way it was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I expected. "
Even as "Mockingbird" became a fixture in high school reading lists and requirements that became more and more intense, the Soraka sought refuge in New York and Alabama, hiding in plain sight. It was not that he was isolated, exactly; He is preferred to let the work speak for itself.
At an event in honor of - and there were many - was asked to address the audience at the Academy honor of Alabama. He turned down the opportunity.
"Well, it's better to be silent, than be a fool," he said.
"I kept this"
Nelle Harper Lee was born in enjoyable on 28 April 1926. He was the youngest of five children to Amasa Coleman (AC) Lee and Frances Cunningham finch. If AC was widowed as Atticus mother Lee was suffering from mental illness, so she and her siblings raised substantially from the father. The two became very close.
Truman met persons who were two years older, as a child. The Lee tomboyish and sometimes edgy people, which was sent away by their parents to spend the summers in enjoyable, became close friends and would spend hours reading and stories. Recognizing the imaginative temperament of his daughter, AD Lee gave an Underwood typewriter. She is everywhere.
Harper Lee: At a glance
Lee attended the University of Alabama, including a brief stint in law school, but not completed. Instead, he moved to New York where Truman people now Truman Capote, was established as one of the leading authors of the country.
Lee, too, I wanted to write, but had little time to follow the slope up to a couple of friends of Capote, Michael and coffee joy, gave a Christmas gift: will pay all expenses for a year. Lee received two to write "To Kill a Mockingbird.»
Although the book seems very easy, he said Newquist came in stops and starts.
"Of course, not sit in a" white hot inspiration "and write with a burning flame in front of you," he said. "But because I knew that I could never be happy to be anything other than a writer, and« Mockingbird »same with me so accommodatingly, I kept at it, because I knew it had to be the first novel, for better or for worse. "
After finishing "Mockingbird," Capote - fresh from the success of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - called to assist on a new project: the story of murdered Kansas family, the Clutters. Lee became party secretary, interview portion, mediator portion for flamboyant Capote. The work they did would become the foundation of the best-seller of 1966 Capote, "Cold."
"Mockingbird" was published in July 1960 and became an immediate best-seller. Indeed, this has never stop the sale; since 2006, it had sold 30 million copies and moves one million more each year.
Lee was caught off guard by the success.
"I can not say that [my reaction] reacted surprise. It was a pure sensation. It was like a blow over the head and knocked cold, "said Newquist.
Close the screen
The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was optioned for a movie. Lee was skeptical of Hollywood attention but allowed some items. Selection for Atticus was Spencer Tracy, but he was not available. The first choice of studio was Rock Hudson.
When selected Gregory Peck, he traveled enjoyable to meet with Lee. He became so coordinated on the role Lee burst into tears the first time she saw him in character. The two became new friends. After completion of filming, Lee gave the actor prized pocket watch of her father. later, Peck grandson named for the author.
The film has been called "the best book adjustment screen." Do people arrested Lee just that: the ruined houses, the county court (built on a Baklot but by building enjoyable) and especially the characters.
Performers who played Scout and Jem, Mary Badham and Philip Alford, was Alabama-born acting beginners. Brock Peters, who played Tom Robinson, seceded from the heavies had portrayed before landing the role. (More than five decades later, would deliver the eulogy at the funeral of Peck.) Robert Duvall, who played the mysterious Boo Radley, was a newcomer screen. Go a bunk career.
With the success of the film "To Kill a Mockingbird» consolidated position in the culture. But never followed Lee. He worked on a second novel, but never finished. Later he tried his hand at a true-crime book. That, also, would be left incomplete.
"Go to appoint a guardian" was an earlier version of "mockingbird." The book its share of controversy emerged over concerns that Lee, since in assisted-living facility, not approved its release, despite a statement he was "humbled and amazed that it is now published. "
Regardless, the «Mockingbird» was a career in itself.
The story was so steady source of income and, ultimately, somehow sitting at the nape of Lee. He spent many years sharing a home enjoyable with his sister Alice, a centenarian who followed the footsteps of her father as a lawyer. Strangers will knock on the door and ask for autographs. Lee sued local museum over trademark infringement. This was caught in a lawsuit in which he claimed that this was "duped" sign over the copyright to the book. The suit was settled in 2013.
All these years, biographers and reporters will try to get close to Lee. For the most part, that they resisted the blandishments, although a teacher, Charles Shields, wrote a biography of 2006, and Midwestern journalist, Marja Mills, moved next door and eventually wrote a book, "The Mockingbird Next Door" ( 2014). Since then, Harper Lee had suffered a stroke and two Lees detailed care required.
However, there is no forgetting «Mockingbird.» The movie lives; It is the national register tape. Every time enjoyable puts in a stage version of the story.
And, of course, there is the book, still selling, or even read, still moving many to tears.
The book, and the author of the offer two qualities that are often in short supply: respect and restraint.
Perhaps there is now moving example of a famous scene from the book and movie. Atticus Finch has just lost the trial of rape. Customer of Tom Robinson, will probably put to death. On the balcony, Scout and Jem sit with the black community of Maycomb in stunned silence. As Atticus leaves quietly in the courtroom, Reverend Sykes, a local black leader, taking care of Scout. The people on the balcony everything is ready. Calls to do the same.
"Miss Jean Louise,» he says, "I get up. Your father passin '.»
Her death was confirmed Friday in Hall enjoyable, Alabama, where he lived.
"Mockingbird," published in 1960, was derived from elements of his childhood in Lee enjoyable, Alabama. In the steady prose shadowed by memory and lyricism, describes how an impulsive girl, Scout Finch, the older brother Jem, their friend Dill and various other townspeople get caught when Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape in the Depression-era town of Maycomb, Alabama.
Through it all, without character is more indelible than the Scout is widowed father, Atticus Finch. The lawyer meticulous, fair, who defends the accused falsely Robinson in a racist hall a model for the kindness and bravery that still resonates more than 50 years later.
"I want to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand," Atticus tells Scout to a point. "This is when you know you're licked before you begin but anyway will start and you can see through it no matter what."
The book won the Pulitzer Prize, and Gregory Peck, who played Atticus acclaimed 1962 film, won an Oscar for Best Actor. Finch was named the greatest character in film history in a survey of the American Film Institute, 2003. His fame is such that a poll of 2010 by the American Bar Association magazine was titled "The 25 greatest fictional lawyers (not Atticus Finch).»
An earlier draft of the book, titled "Gone set to guard," published in 2015. The book was criticized for a different portrayal of Atticus, who voices racist feelings, and questions were raised as to whether Lee really wanted it released .
Differences between «Mockingbird,» «Guard»
Despite mixed reviews, the book was one of the top sellers of 2015.
In all these, Lee maintain a low profile. He helped his friend Truman Capote, the basis for the dill, and the researched his novel "In Cold Blood," and although that was revealed in praise and fortune that comes with fame, that it resisted.
"I never expected any sort of success with« Mockingbird »», said critic Roy Newquist an interview published in 1964. "I did not expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers, but at the same time kind of hoping that maybe someone will like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I was hoping for a bit, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in a way it was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I expected. "
Even as "Mockingbird" became a fixture in high school reading lists and requirements that became more and more intense, the Soraka sought refuge in New York and Alabama, hiding in plain sight. It was not that he was isolated, exactly; He is preferred to let the work speak for itself.
At an event in honor of - and there were many - was asked to address the audience at the Academy honor of Alabama. He turned down the opportunity.
"Well, it's better to be silent, than be a fool," he said.
"I kept this"
Nelle Harper Lee was born in enjoyable on 28 April 1926. He was the youngest of five children to Amasa Coleman (AC) Lee and Frances Cunningham finch. If AC was widowed as Atticus mother Lee was suffering from mental illness, so she and her siblings raised substantially from the father. The two became very close.
Truman met persons who were two years older, as a child. The Lee tomboyish and sometimes edgy people, which was sent away by their parents to spend the summers in enjoyable, became close friends and would spend hours reading and stories. Recognizing the imaginative temperament of his daughter, AD Lee gave an Underwood typewriter. She is everywhere.
Harper Lee: At a glance
Lee attended the University of Alabama, including a brief stint in law school, but not completed. Instead, he moved to New York where Truman people now Truman Capote, was established as one of the leading authors of the country.
Lee, too, I wanted to write, but had little time to follow the slope up to a couple of friends of Capote, Michael and coffee joy, gave a Christmas gift: will pay all expenses for a year. Lee received two to write "To Kill a Mockingbird.»
Although the book seems very easy, he said Newquist came in stops and starts.
"Of course, not sit in a" white hot inspiration "and write with a burning flame in front of you," he said. "But because I knew that I could never be happy to be anything other than a writer, and« Mockingbird »same with me so accommodatingly, I kept at it, because I knew it had to be the first novel, for better or for worse. "
After finishing "Mockingbird," Capote - fresh from the success of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - called to assist on a new project: the story of murdered Kansas family, the Clutters. Lee became party secretary, interview portion, mediator portion for flamboyant Capote. The work they did would become the foundation of the best-seller of 1966 Capote, "Cold."
"Mockingbird" was published in July 1960 and became an immediate best-seller. Indeed, this has never stop the sale; since 2006, it had sold 30 million copies and moves one million more each year.
Lee was caught off guard by the success.
"I can not say that [my reaction] reacted surprise. It was a pure sensation. It was like a blow over the head and knocked cold, "said Newquist.
Close the screen
The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was optioned for a movie. Lee was skeptical of Hollywood attention but allowed some items. Selection for Atticus was Spencer Tracy, but he was not available. The first choice of studio was Rock Hudson.
When selected Gregory Peck, he traveled enjoyable to meet with Lee. He became so coordinated on the role Lee burst into tears the first time she saw him in character. The two became new friends. After completion of filming, Lee gave the actor prized pocket watch of her father. later, Peck grandson named for the author.
The film has been called "the best book adjustment screen." Do people arrested Lee just that: the ruined houses, the county court (built on a Baklot but by building enjoyable) and especially the characters.
Performers who played Scout and Jem, Mary Badham and Philip Alford, was Alabama-born acting beginners. Brock Peters, who played Tom Robinson, seceded from the heavies had portrayed before landing the role. (More than five decades later, would deliver the eulogy at the funeral of Peck.) Robert Duvall, who played the mysterious Boo Radley, was a newcomer screen. Go a bunk career.
With the success of the film "To Kill a Mockingbird» consolidated position in the culture. But never followed Lee. He worked on a second novel, but never finished. Later he tried his hand at a true-crime book. That, also, would be left incomplete.
"Go to appoint a guardian" was an earlier version of "mockingbird." The book its share of controversy emerged over concerns that Lee, since in assisted-living facility, not approved its release, despite a statement he was "humbled and amazed that it is now published. "
Regardless, the «Mockingbird» was a career in itself.
The story was so steady source of income and, ultimately, somehow sitting at the nape of Lee. He spent many years sharing a home enjoyable with his sister Alice, a centenarian who followed the footsteps of her father as a lawyer. Strangers will knock on the door and ask for autographs. Lee sued local museum over trademark infringement. This was caught in a lawsuit in which he claimed that this was "duped" sign over the copyright to the book. The suit was settled in 2013.
All these years, biographers and reporters will try to get close to Lee. For the most part, that they resisted the blandishments, although a teacher, Charles Shields, wrote a biography of 2006, and Midwestern journalist, Marja Mills, moved next door and eventually wrote a book, "The Mockingbird Next Door" ( 2014). Since then, Harper Lee had suffered a stroke and two Lees detailed care required.
However, there is no forgetting «Mockingbird.» The movie lives; It is the national register tape. Every time enjoyable puts in a stage version of the story.
And, of course, there is the book, still selling, or even read, still moving many to tears.
The book, and the author of the offer two qualities that are often in short supply: respect and restraint.
Perhaps there is now moving example of a famous scene from the book and movie. Atticus Finch has just lost the trial of rape. Customer of Tom Robinson, will probably put to death. On the balcony, Scout and Jem sit with the black community of Maycomb in stunned silence. As Atticus leaves quietly in the courtroom, Reverend Sykes, a local black leader, taking care of Scout. The people on the balcony everything is ready. Calls to do the same.
"Miss Jean Louise,» he says, "I get up. Your father passin '.»
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