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Bloom, Harold. Bloom’s Notes. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1998.

Polk, Noel. “Lee, Harper.” The World Book Encyclopedia. Edition 1998.

"Nelle" Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She grew up in Monroeville, a small town in southwest Alabama. Her father was a lawyer who also served in the state legislature from 1926-1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader. After she attended public school in Monroeville she attended Huntingdon College, a private school for women in Montgomery for a year and then transferred to the University of Alabama. After graduation, Lee studied at Oxford University. She returned to the University of Alabama to study law but withdrew six months before graduation.

She moved to New York in 1949 and worked as a reservations clerk for Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways. While in New York, she wrote several essays and short stories but none were published. Her agent encouraged her to develop one short story into a novel. In order to complete it, Lee quit working and was supported by friends who believed in her work. In 1957, she submitted the manuscript to J. B. Lippincott Company. Although editors found the work too episodic, they saw promise in the book and encouraged Lee to rewrite it. In 1960, with the help of Lippincott editor Tay Hohoff, To Kill a Mockingbird was published.

To Kill a Mockingbird was honored with many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and was made into a film in 1962 starring Gregory Peck. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It actually was honored with three awards: Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Award, Horton Foote won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar and a design team was awarded an Oscar for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration B/W. Lee worked as a consultant on the screenplay adaptation of the novel.
Author Truman Capote was Lee's next-door neighbor from 1928 to 1933. In 1959 Lee and Capote traveled to Garden City, Kansas, to research the Clutter family murders for his work, In Cold Blood (1965). Capote dedicated In Cold Blood to Lee and his partner Jack Dunphy. Lee was the inspiration for the character Idabel in Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He in turn clearly influenced her character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Harper Lee divides her time between New York and her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama where her sister Alice Lee practices law. Though she has published no other work of fiction, this novel continues to have a strong impact on successive generations of readers.
Harper Lee had many childhood experiences that are similar to those of her young narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch.

TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD by Harper Lee Resource Guide Online.  May 29, 2006. http://www.chipublib.org/003cpl/onebook/leebio.html.

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mi super dulce 16 esta acerca de personas de viejo sus fiestas de cumpleaños.

that’s so raven está acerca de una chica adolescente cuervo denominado que es phsycic.

30 minuta comidas es acerca rachel ray quién hace comidas en 30 minutas

Interview

Q: Well to start out, why was the great depression named the great depression?

A: the great depression was named so because in economics of a country, you have can have slumps where no money is being brought towards the country, making a depression in the economy.

Q: Oh ok, well second question then. How old were you during the height of the depression?

A: I was about 12.

Q: Wow. It must have been tough growing up during the great depression. What did your family do for money?

A: Yes, it was quite tough. My family just worked any jobs we could find to pay for our necessities. We never spent money on anything we didn’t need. Plus, everything, everything not being very many things at all, that were available to us, was very overpriced to where we could barely afford them anyways.

Q: How did you still have fun as a teenager without having anything we have today?

A: We would just hang out and have fun. Without having money to pay for any source of entertainment, we had to entertain ourselves.

Q: What was life like during the great depression?

A: Life wasn’t terrible, but it certainly wasn’t the high life. When the stock market crashed, thousands of investors lost large sums of money. They lost everything. Banks, stores, and even factories were closed, putting millions of Americans out of work and out of money. Most people were dependent on charity to survive, charity, and the little the government would give us.

Q: Did the great depression affect any countries other than America?

A: Actually, yes. Because America’s factories supplied products to other countries, and because we imported a lot of products from foreign factories, a lot of countries were put into an economic depression. World trade slowed down a lot because countries would put high tariffs on anything they exported.

Q: Well thanks for the information about the great depression. Any other facts you would like to share about it?

A: I don’t have anything else to mention except that the great depression was a very bad time for Americans. The great depression was the longest and worst length of unemployment and low business activity in the United States.

The Caste System relates to Maycomb and To Kill a Mockingbird because just like in India, Maycomb had a class system. This class system is represented by what happens throughout the book. Atticus Finch, a highly wealthy and respected lawyer is placed in the highest class. In second class falls the Cunninghams, because they are workers and have it better than most but still have to work for a living. The third class is the poorest Caucasians. The Ewells fall into the third class. They live at a dump and survive on charity. The fourth and lowest class is all blacks. Tom Robinson falls into this category, for no reason other than that he is black.