Understanding The Author
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28Th, 1926 in Monroeville,Alabama .Harper Lee was a tomboy who loved to read.She was the youngest of the four children.Her father,Cunningham Finch Lee, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who also served on the state legislature.
Lee was only five years old in when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began with regard to the purported rapes of two white women by nine young black men.
Despite medical testimony that the women had not been raped, the all-white jury found the men guilty of the crime and sentenced all but the youngest, a twelve-year-old boy, to death.
The young Truman Capote, Lee's schoolmate and neighbor, provides the basis of the character of Dill in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Her father,Cunningham Finch Lee,was her inspiration inthe character of 'Atticus Finch'.
Her father,Cunningham Finch Lee,was her inspiration inthe character of 'Atticus Finch'.
The Author; Harper Lee
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