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Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday.
Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer, Lee loved #books. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who spent time in #Monroeville as a boy. Years later, she turned the world she knew into a novel about the difficult bravery of doing what is right when the world refuses to do so.
Do you like her novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Harper Lee, Truman Capote und der amerikanische Süden – von Marc Bädor und Konstantin Schönfelder
WDR 3 – Kulturfeature
Harper Lee und Truman Capote sind zwei der bekanntesten amerikanischen Schriftsteller des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts – und Kindheitsfreunde. Haus an Haus wuchsen sie in Monroeville auf, einer ländlichen Kleinstadt in Alabama. Vor allem Capote, klein, exzentrisch, mit heller Stimme, war ein Außenseiter in Monroeville. Doch auch Harper Lee passte nicht richtig in die kleine Gemeinde: Am liebsten las sie – oder schrieb mit Capote Geschichten auf einer Schreibmaschine, die ihr Vater gekauft hatte, ein bekannter Anwalt der Gegend. Als Jugendlicher zog Capote mit seiner Mutter und seinem Stiefvater nach New York. Lee folgte ihm nach Abbruch ihres Studiums, schrieb in der Stadt ihren Weltbestseller „Wer die Nachtigall“ stört, in dem auch Capote als Figur auftaucht. Und als Capote mit „Kaltblütig“ das Genre des Tatsachenromans begründete, gelang ihm das nur, weil Lee ihn bei der Recherche in Kansas unterstützt hatte.
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My current #BookAtBedtime is #ToKillAMockingbird by #HarperLee. It’s a #Book that I first read at secondary school for English Literature class and I’m really enjoying reading it again. I like the clear writing and linear structure of the narrative.
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"If your father’s anything, he’s civilized in his heart. Marksmanship’s a gift of God, a talent – oh, you have to practice to make it perfect, but shootin’s different from playing the piano or the like. I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn’t shoot till he had to, and he had to today."
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This was an interesting watch. I can't even imagine what it must have felt like to go from 0 to 100 like that with your first book.
#ToKillAMockingird #harperlee #bookstodon #booksky #literature
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"If we regard this book as #literature, it is an unqualified failure. But it’s more properly seen - & will surely be read - for the light it sheds on Lee’s life. As such, it’s obliquely fascinating, largely because it radiates #repression. Often there’s a sense that we’re seeing the side of #HarperLee that wasn’t exceptional, but representative of a generation of women who were mostly muzzled."
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The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee review – newly discovered stories from an American great https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/21/the-land-of-sweet-forever-by-harper-lee-review-newly-discovered-stories-from-an-american-great #Shortstories #HarperLee #Fiction #Culture #Essays #Books
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‘A glimpse of genius’: what do unpublished stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author?
When she died, the writer left behind a cache of notebooks and manuscripts. Her biographer reveals what they tell us about her unlikely rise to literary stardom -
‘A glimpse of genius’: what do unpublished stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/18/a-glimpse-of-genius-what-do-unpublished-stories-found-in-harper-lees-apartment-tell-us-about-the-to-kill-a-mockingbird-author #HarperLee #Culture #Books
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Currently reading: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Although I’ve seen the movie more recently, I haven’t read the book since high school so I am looking forward to revisiting it from a 2025 perspective. #bookstodon #StoryGraph #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #currentlyreading #ReadBannedBooks
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I think #ToKillAMockingbird by #HarperLee probably affected me more deeply than any other book we ever read in school.
Could read it once or a thousand times and still be finding its lessons played out for the rest of your life.
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#ScribesAndMakers 25 July 2025
Create a multiple choices poll listing 3 books you personally consider “classics” and ask others to choose the ones they have read. Create a fourth option for None of the Above.#BramStoker #StephenKing #HarperLee #Carrie #Dracula #ToKillAMockingbird #reading #Lesen #bookstodon
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Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird Sale: $14.99 to $0.99 by Mary McDonagh Murphy Rating: 4.3/5 (96 Reviews) #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #Book #Recommendation #Literature #USA #BookSale #BookSky
Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Cel... -
#Books including “To Kill a Mockingbird,”the novel by #HarperLee about #racism in the Depression-era South, were purged from #schools run by the #Defense Dept, acc/to a lawsuit filed by the #ACLU.
The #LibraryOfCongress, which describes itself as the world’s largest #library, is home to millions of items, w/collections of books on foreign languages & world history, as well as music, films & newspapers. It serves as the #research arm of #Congress & is open to the public.
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These lines are very relevant to the times we live in now, more than ever.
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Author Harper Lee became a household name after “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960. But, as many writers have experienced, Lee’s rise to fame was impeded by rejections from literary journals and magazines. Lee kept those early attempts at fiction, and following her death in 2016, her executor discovered the writings in her apartment. Now, eight never-before-seen short stories will be published this year. Read more from @Smithsonianmag:
#Culture #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #HarperLee #ToKillAMockingbird
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Unseen Harper Lee stories set in New York and Alabama to be published https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/04/unseen-harper-lee-stories-to-kill-a-mockingbird-the-land-of-sweet-forever #Publishing #HarperLee #Culture #Books
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Things are always better in the morning
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“Shoot all the bluejays you want, but remember, it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” — To Kill a Mockingbird #HarperLee #ToKillAMockingbird #Literature
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in 1960. The edition I read was initially released in 1982; my copy was a 2010 reissue. And yet, after all these years... it still contained a typo.
That's OK. As Leonard Cohen said:
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.#books #publishing #perfection #typo #leonardcohen #harperlee
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Today in 1960, #ToKillAMockingbird by #HarperLee is published.
I was forced to read it in High School, and I must admit it bored me to tears. Never had any inclination to read it as an adult. But I understand some people love it. ;-) #books #OnThisDay #history @bookstodon
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Picked up Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. "Probably overrated," I thought. "Harper Lee probably just got lucky. Can't possibly live up to its reputation.
Wrong. It's stunning, masterful, timeless, and just as relevant today as ever.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
slip:4a1338.
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Entérome no podcast "Grandes infelices" de que Harper Lee escribiu *Matar un reiseñor*, a súa primeira e única novela, porque os seus amigos lle regalaron un ano de mantenza para que escribise. Iso son amigos. Que por certo, non a temos traducida ao galego.
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