Harper Lee
Harper is actually the middle name of Nelle Harper Lee, the woman who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Her life long friendship with another Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist is just incredible. Her friend, Truman Capote, and she used to write short stories on a typewriter Lee’s father gave to her.
She, tougher than most of the boys, often stepped up as Truman's protector. Truman was picked on because he liked very few things the other boys his age were interested in. He was also picked on for the fancy clothes he wore and how sensitive he was. The friends had very different lives; Truman lived with his mother’s relatives after his parents abandoned him.
Later on, Lee transferred to the University of …show more content…
Their generosity allowed her to quit her job and devote her time to her craft. The Browns helped her get an agent named, Maurice Crain. He successfully represented her work to the publisher J.B. Lippincott And Tay Hohoff became her editor. Lee worked on manuscript set in a small town in Alabama which became her novel To Kill A Mockingbird.
She was reunited with her old her friends Truman Capote, in the city.
Lee and Capote were next door neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama. These have been best friends since they were five. Now they are grown up and both writers. When they were kids they both strained relationships with their mothers. Lee’s mother suffered from psychological problems and severe mood swings. Capote mother did not want him, she often locked him in hotel rooms, she left him with her cousin as she went off and live a carefree happy life, in New York City
Below are some quotes from To Kill A Mockingbird, which reflect Lee’s point of view about prejudice and racism. The effect the book had, and still has, on society is to open people's eyes. Her thoughts have deep meaning. She must have been inspired to write something like this, and with all these wonderful timely ideas.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in
Harper is actually the middle name of Nelle Harper Lee, the woman who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Her life long friendship with another Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist is just incredible. Her friend, Truman Capote, and she used to write short stories on a typewriter Lee’s father gave to her.
She, tougher than most of the boys, often stepped up as Truman's protector. Truman was picked on because he liked very few things the other boys his age were interested in. He was also picked on for the fancy clothes he wore and how sensitive he was. The friends had very different lives; Truman lived with his mother’s relatives after his parents abandoned him.
Later on, Lee transferred to the University of …show more content…
Their generosity allowed her to quit her job and devote her time to her craft. The Browns helped her get an agent named, Maurice Crain. He successfully represented her work to the publisher J.B. Lippincott And Tay Hohoff became her editor. Lee worked on manuscript set in a small town in Alabama which became her novel To Kill A Mockingbird.
She was reunited with her old her friends Truman Capote, in the city.
Lee and Capote were next door neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama. These have been best friends since they were five. Now they are grown up and both writers. When they were kids they both strained relationships with their mothers. Lee’s mother suffered from psychological problems and severe mood swings. Capote mother did not want him, she often locked him in hotel rooms, she left him with her cousin as she went off and live a carefree happy life, in New York City
Below are some quotes from To Kill A Mockingbird, which reflect Lee’s point of view about prejudice and racism. The effect the book had, and still has, on society is to open people's eyes. Her thoughts have deep meaning. She must have been inspired to write something like this, and with all these wonderful timely ideas.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in