On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:48 am Post subject: Harper Lee is dead |
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Nelle Harper Lee, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died at the age of 89, multiple sources in her hometown of Monroeville, including the mayor's office, confirmed Friday morning.
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Her only book to that date was read to our Grade 6 class by our teacher, early 80s or so. I guess it was okay, though I'm not sure how much of the overall cultural context I would have understood(black men, Deep South, rape).
I didn't see the film until I was in my thirties, and obviously had a better handle on things. Can't say I was blown away as some others seemed to haven been, though it was a passable way to spend an evening.
It was amusing to read, a year or so ago, stories of people who named their kids Atticus after the heroic libearal lawyer in TKAM, and then were shocked to discover that he was a racist, according to the more authoritative second book.
And isn't there some rumour that Mockingbird was more or less written by Truman Capote? |
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