About Harper Lee
Harper Lee was famous for her only novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ in 1961. This novel was a bestseller around the world, and was soon made into a movie in 1962. Harper was born in Monroeville, Alabama, and lived with her father Robert E. Lee, a former southern civil war general. Her father served as a newspaper editor, who has served as senator and was a practicing lawyer. Harper went to the University of Alabama to study law from 1945-49, and spent a year as an exchange student at Oxford University. Six months before she was done at university she went to New York to pursue her writing career. At that time she worked as an airline reservation clerk at British overseas airways, during the 1950’s. After this she wrote and published ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’. Even though the book was a huge success she didn’t continue as a writer. Instead she moved back from New York back to Monroeville and avoid all interviews.
quotes from Harper LEe
- "Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."
- "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
- "Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
- "From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.":
- "I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."
- Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do."
- 'You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."
- "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
- "Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
- "From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.":
- "I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."
- Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do."
- 'You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."