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 cour