ANGELICA'S BOOKS: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

 

To Kill a Mockingbird is a bildungsroman and crime novel written by Harper Lee and published in 1960, which in the same year the Pulitzer Prize.

The protagonist and the narrator of this book is Jean Louise Finch, a child nicknamed Scout. She and her brother Jem, orphans of their mother, live in Maycomb (in Alabama) with a dark-skinned governess, Calpurnia, and their father, the lawyer Atticus Finch.  

REMEMBERING HARPER LEE

A year ago Harper Lee left us, and today I want to remember her discussing her most famous novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird". 

Nelle Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama, in the Deep South.  Her father was a lawyer , instead her mother died in 1951. She was a close friend of  Truman  Capote, the writer who  inspired  her to create the character of Dill in “ To Kill a Mockingbird”.

Since she was a teenager she had loved literature and for that reason , in the 1948 she  moved to New York to become a writer. There she met her old friend Truman Capote again and he encouraged her to write her first novel.  So Harper Lee started writing  “ To Kill a Mokingbird”, and  in 1960 it was published. She didn’t expect  that book  would make her famous all over the world.

“To Kill a Mokingbird” is set in the 1930s and the main character  is a  child named Jean-Louise, whom everyone calls Scout.  She lives in Maycomb , a town in the state of Alabama, with her  father Atticus , a lawyer, and  her older brother Jem. During the summer  the two  children