Harper Lee
Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 April 1926
CityMonroeville, AL
CountryUnited States of America
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.