Harper Lee
Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926. Information about her death is unknown
Her book To Kill A Mockingbird was intriguing to many because it was not only a popular story form, a coming of age, but also showed the racial segregation and other issues in the South.
Regardless of the millions that her best selling book brought her, Lee lived her same old lifestyle, in a regular apartment in New York, who used the bus system like everyone else.
It was only thanks to the Broadway composer Michael Martin Brown and his wife Joy that Harper Lee was able to pursue funding. They provided her with funding for 1 year allowing her to quit her job.
Harper lee underwent too infringements of her copyrights for her book To Kill A Mockingbird, once by someone trying to steal her privileges and another with unauthorized merchandise. …show more content…
Because of the large gap between the rich and the poor, slight changes in the economy caused huge changes, with not enough people to buy things.
The depression affected many literary works of its time; not only Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird but also works such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
In To Kill A Mockingbird, The city under the effect of the depression is Maycomb.
Because of the lack of JObs president Franklin Roosevelt initiated the WPA which hired the unemployed for construction jobs, slowly rebuilding the economy.
To Kill A Mockingbird
The story is written in first person by its narrator
Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926. Information about her death is unknown
Her book To Kill A Mockingbird was intriguing to many because it was not only a popular story form, a coming of age, but also showed the racial segregation and other issues in the South.
Regardless of the millions that her best selling book brought her, Lee lived her same old lifestyle, in a regular apartment in New York, who used the bus system like everyone else.
It was only thanks to the Broadway composer Michael Martin Brown and his wife Joy that Harper Lee was able to pursue funding. They provided her with funding for 1 year allowing her to quit her job.
Harper lee underwent too infringements of her copyrights for her book To Kill A Mockingbird, once by someone trying to steal her privileges and another with unauthorized merchandise. …show more content…
Because of the large gap between the rich and the poor, slight changes in the economy caused huge changes, with not enough people to buy things.
The depression affected many literary works of its time; not only Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird but also works such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
In To Kill A Mockingbird, The city under the effect of the depression is Maycomb.
Because of the lack of JObs president Franklin Roosevelt initiated the WPA which hired the unemployed for construction jobs, slowly rebuilding the economy.
To Kill A Mockingbird
The story is written in first person by its narrator