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Atticus Finch is a fictional character and the protagonist of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird.A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel Go Set a Watchman, written in the mid-1950s but not published until 2015.
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 won the Pulitzer Prize a year after its release, and it has become a classic of modern American literature.
On Friday morning, the world learned of the passing of Harper Lee, the beloved author of one of the most influential books in American history, To Kill a Mockingbird. One of two books that Lee had ...
It is now accepted that it was a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, with many passages in that book being used again. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The title comes from the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible : "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman , let him declare what he seeth" (Chapter 21, Verse 6), [ 5 ] which is quoted in the ...
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in middle and high schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. [1]
It is argued that since prejudice is defined as a negative affect towards members of a group, there are many groups against whom prejudice is acceptable (such as rapists, men who abandon their families, pedophiles, neo-Nazis, drink-drivers, queue jumpers, murderers etc.), yet such prejudices are not studied.
To Kill a Mockingbird; 1963. Free, White and 21; Gone Are the Days! Shock Corridor; 1964. Black Like Me; Nothing But a Man; One Potato, Two Potato; 1965. A Patch of Blue; 1966. Lost Command; A Man Called Adam; A Time for Burning* 1967. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1 remake: 2006) Hurry Sundown; In the Heat of the Night (2 sequels: 1970, 1971 ...
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James Anderson, and Brock Peters in supporting roles. It marked the film debut of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley.