Harper Lee
Published on Nov 22, 2015
Timeline of events in the life of Harper Lee
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Harper Lee
American Novelist And Pulitzer Prize Winner
Apr 28, 1926
Nelle Harper Lee is born in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and homemaker Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.
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1931
Scottsboro Boys trial. Convicted and sentenced after false accusation. They are released six years later after one accuser recants her testimony.
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The Scottsboro Boys with National Guard. Digital image. "The Scottsboro Boys" Trials 1931-1937. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2015..
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The Scottsboro Boys with National Guard. Digital image. "The Scottsboro Boys" Trials 1931-1937. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.
1932
Lee befriends a boy in her neighborhood named Truman Streckfus Persons, an eccentric child sent to live with relatives in Monroeville. They bond instantly. Their friendship lasts for decades. Also a writer, Truman eventually adopts the pen name Truman Capote.
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1942
Lee enters Huntingdon, a women's college in Alabama.
1945
Lee transfers to the University of Alabama, where she plans to pursue a law degree. She dislikes law, but enjoys working for the campus newspaper and humor magazine.
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1948
Truman Capote publishes the autobiographical novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," which features a tomboyish character named Isabel who is based on Harper Lee.
Aug 28, 1955
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, is murdered by a gang of white men for allegedly whistling at a white woman. His mother insists on an open casket at his funeral so mourners can see the brutality of his injuries.
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http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/till/tillhome.html
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"County Apologizes to Emmett Till Family." NPR. NPR, 02 Oct. 2007. Web. 19 Oct. 2015..
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"County Apologizes to Emmett Till Family." NPR. NPR, 02 Oct. 2007. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.
Dec 1, 1955
While riding the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old African-American woman named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger. Though she gets arrested, her act of civil disobedience sparks the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becomes one of the defining moments of the Civil Rights Movement.
Dec 25, 1956
Lee receives a life-changing Christmas gift. Friends pool money and buy her a year off from work so that she can concentrate on writing. She supports herself as a writer from then on.
1958
Frustrated and furious with her novel's lack of progress, Lee opens a window in her New York apartment and hurls the draft of her manuscript out into the snow. She calls her editor, Tay Hohoff of J.B. Lippincott Company, who orders her to retrieve the materials immediately.
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July 11, 1960
"To Kill A Mockingbird" is published by J.B. Lippincott Company. The book is an instant critical and commercial success.
1961
Lee is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "To Kill A Mockingbird," at the age of 35.
Pulitzer Prize. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.
1999
Library Journal votes "To Kill A Mockingbird" the best novel of the twentieth century.
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Dec 25, 1962
The film version of "To Kill A Mockingbird" is released, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. Like the book it's based on, the film is also an immediate success. Lee calls Horton Foote's screenplay "one of the best translations of a book to film ever made."
July 2006
Harper Lee breaks a decades-long publishing drought with a piece in "O" Magazine entitled "A Letter to Oprah from Harper Lee." In it, she defends the value of books and of reading in an era of "laptops, cellphones, iPods and minds like empty rooms."
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Nov 5, 2007
President George W. Bush presents Harper Lee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The White House press release explains, "At a critical moment in our history, her beautiful book, "To Kill A Mockingbird," helped focus the nation on the turbulent struggle for equality."
July 14, 2015
A second novel is published more than half a century after the release of her classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." "Go Set a Watchman" was written in the 1950s after Lee's editor persuaded her to write a novel from the point of view of a young Scout, set 20 years earlier. It was set aside and presumed lost.
Works Cited:
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Harper Lee." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.
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