To grip Lee

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Nelle Harper Lee known as Harper Lee (born the April 28th 1926 in Monroeville in the Alabama) is a particularly known American écrivaine for its novel To Kill has Mockingbird ( do not shoot at the bird mocker ), Prix Pulitzer in 1961 in the fiction category. Drawn to million from specimens, this book is traditional American literature, studied for this reason in many colleges and colleges of the United States, and regularly quoted at the head of the classifications of the critics and booksellers. do not shoot at the bird mocker is adapted to the cinema under the title Of Silence and the Shades .

Biography

Years of studies

Nelle Harper Lee is born on April 28th, 1926 with Monroeville, a town of 7.000 inhabitants in the south-west of the Alabama. His/her father, Piled up Lee, is lawyer and editor of the Monroe Journal ; he has many resemblances to Atticus Finch, the father of the narrator in do not shoot at the bird mocker . After its secondary studies with the college of Monroeville, To grip between with the Faculty Huntingdon de Montgomery (Alabama) where it remains one year before entering in Faculty of Law. It is there that it starts to write for some student newspapers, and that it is during one year editor of the satirical newspaper of the campus To row-Jammer .

Although it does not obtain a diploma, it leaves then for Oxford, then returns to settle in New York in 1950.

Its contribution with Of coolness

Lee Harper works some time with New York like employee of an airline company, where it takes care of the reservations. But soon it decides to launch out in a career of writer, with the moral support and financier of its friends. Truman Capote involves it in 1959 in the writing of a novel on a quadruple murder, which will become coolness (In Cold Blood) . It accompanies it in Holcomb (Kansas) to help it in its research. It assists it during the talks, in particular playing a part alleviating near those which were surprised eccentric personality of Hood. It is always there to encourage the writer when he threatens to give up project such a full and exhausting. Hood quotes it by thanking it for its " work of secrétaire" and dedicates to him the novel, like with his/her lover Jack Dunphy.

Its work

In 1957, it presents to its agent a first manuscript. This one is closer to the collection of news than of the novel, and it is on the councils of its agent that it goes, during two years, to develop one of them. To kill has Mockingbird , published in 1959, is its only book published. Success is immediate, and it book is crowned by the Prix Pulitzer in 1961. Plea for justice, the novel appears at the time where the recognition of the civic rights of the Afro-Americans, and in particular the abolition of discrimination de facto in educational establishments causes violent preserving demonstrations.

Lee To grip cease then to publish novels. Some articles and tests are published under its signature, inter alia in Vogue. Its silence and its very great discretion since the publication of its single book feed the rumors, more especially as she would have stated to be herself put at the drafting of a second novel shortly after " do not shoot at the mocking bird ". The noises run among its admirors whom she would have written several novels, without publishing some no, or that she would have continued to publish under a pseudonym.

Anecdotes

In 2006, the Catherine Keener actress is named with the Oscars for her interpretation of the character To grip Lee in the film Capote (2005).

See too

External bonds

  • Biographie
  • Résumé '' To Kill has Mockingbird ''
  • Literary Encyclopedia biography
  • biography
  • IMDB

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