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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in July 1960 and became instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird has become a classic of modern American literature; a year after its release, it won the Pulitzer Prize.
Tom Robbins has lived in La Conner, Washington since 1970, where he has written nine books. [3] His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. [4] His latest work, published in 2014, is Tibetan Peach Pie, which is a self-declared "un-memoir".
Amanda was a member of a traveling circus that one day recruited the eccentric drummer John Paul Ziller, a once famous musician known for his exotic dress and odd mannerisms. Falling immediately in love, the two soon married and resigned from the troupe to live in an abandoned restaurant in Skagit County, Washington.
Tom Robinson, right, played by Yaegel T. Welch, is questioned on the stand by Atticus Finch, played by Richard Thomas, in "To Kill a Mockingbird." “This is a wonderful character,” Thomas says.
Tom Robinson. Thomas "Tom" Robinson is an African-American who has three children with his wife, Helen. He is accused and put on trial for the rape of a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Atticus is assigned to defend him and stands up to a lynch mob intent on exacting their own justice against him before the trial begins.
Tom Robinson was born into a middle-class family in Cambridge on 1 June 1950. [2] He attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, a co-ed privately funded Quaker school, between 1961 and 1967. He played guitar in a trio at school called The Inquisition. Robinson has two brothers, Matthew (a former BBC executive producer) and George, and a sister ...
The novel was made into a 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Ed Begley, Jr., Carol Kane, Victoria Williams, Sean Young, Crispin Glover, Roseanne Arnold, Buck Henry, Grace Zabriskie, and Treva Jeffryes. Robbins himself was the narrator.
OCLC. 6683767. Still Life With Woodpecker (1980) is the third novel by Tom Robbins, [1] concerning the love affair between an environmentalist princess and an outlaw. The novel encompasses a broad range of topics, from aliens and redheads to consumerism, the building of bombs, romance, royalty, the Moon, and a pack of Camel cigarettes.