Harper Lee

PHOTOS: Can You Spot The Fashion Designer?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 02.03.2012

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What happens when you combine fashion designers, "Where's Waldo" and buckets upon buckets of paint? Well, Alber Elbaz goes missing. That's what hap...

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'To Kill A Mockingbird' Star Mary Badham On Being Scout, Gregory Peck And Losing The Academy Award

The Huffington Post | Sharon Knolle | Posted 03.31.2012

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Fifty years ago, 10-year-old Mary Badham tried out for a role in a little movie filming near her hometown of Birmingham, Ala.: "To Kill a Mockingbird....

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Why Capote's A Christmas Memory Is an Enduring Gift for All Seasons

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: The Gift of the Magi, Truman Capote, Patty Duke, Christmas Stories, Geraldine Page, Harper Lee, Books News

"Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago." It's my favorite opening in fiction, the first two lines of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory.

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YA Authors Share Their Fave Books As Teens

| Lauren | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Scholastic, Ya Fiction, Zora Neale Hurston, Barbara Michaels, Harper Lee, Teen-Read-Week, Cecil Castellucci, Kim Harrington, Elizabeth Eulberg, Coe Booth, To Kill a Mockingbird, High School News

To help celebrate Teen Read Week, our friends at Scholastic talked to famous authors to find out what books they loved when they were teenagers. Have ...

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YA Authors Share Their Fave Books As Teens

oomscholasticblog.com | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Teen Read Week, Harper Lee, Scholastic, Fiction, Susan Cooper, Maggie-Stiefvater, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jeff Hirsch, Young Adult Fiction, High School News

Coe Booth, author of Tyrell and Bronxwood (September 2011), chose Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. "I read this book so many times ...

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Surprising Day Jobs Of Famous Authors

Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: George Saunders, Nicholas Sparks, Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, David Shields, Harper Lee, Writing-Jobs, Books News

From Flavorwire All you struggling artists and writers out there, take heart. It may seem like you’re just spinning your wheels at that random jo...

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Finding the Souls of Politicians Through the Books They Read

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: A Gift Upon the Shore, A Lesson Before Dying, Walter Mosley, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Books, The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, Caleb?S Crossing, Ernest J. Gaines, Hannah Coulter, A Christmas Carol, Charles DickensThe Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, E.M. Forster, Poltician, Man in the Dark, Wendell Berry, Paul Auster, Geraldine Brooks, Nadine Gordimer, Howards End, Burger?S Daughter, Rick Perry, Indignation Philip Roth, Reading, W.K. Wren, Books News

he question of whether a politician reads at all is a good one, and should be asked and answered more often. But the question of which books a politician has loved throughout his or her lifetime must be asked and answered.

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Five Books That Blew Our Minds, 1955-1975

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Lolita, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Books, Fifty News

At first glance, these books have very little in common -- a racially-charged tome and one of the most praised linguistic publications in history, a "...

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The Most Novels You've Read By an Author

Dave Astor | Posted 11.14.2011

My list includes the authors' names, the number of novels I've read by each of them, and my three favorite novels (in rank order) by each of them. If you have different favorites by those authors, I'd like to hear about that.

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10 Black & White Movies for People Who Won't Watch Black & White Movies

John Farr | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Fred MacMurray, ?the Best Years of Our Lives?, The Grapes of Wrath, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, All About Eve, Fredric March, The Apartment, Best Movies by Farr, Rod Steiger, Citizen Kane, Walter Huston, Robert Duvall, Pulitzer Prize, Marilyn Monroe, Black and White, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Lemmon, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, American Film Institute, Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Movie Recommendations, Orson Welles, Movie Suggestions, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies, Casablanca, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, John Huston, Schindler's List, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, William Wyler, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Myrna Loy, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bette Davis, Culture News

If I could get all those black and white haters out there to watch just ten titles -- movies that constituted absolutely essential viewing -- which would they be?

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Spotted Reading In Public: Summer Reads On The Way To The Beach

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Neil Gaiman, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, A Confederacy of Dunces, Reading in Public, Nick Hornby, Jules Verne, Spotted Reading in Public, Dune, Books News

New Yorkers read in public constantly, and we've spotted them reading plenty this summer on the way to the beach. And like the City itself, the collec...

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Feminine Tosh

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Beloved, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tosh, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Alias Grace. Toni Morrison, Great American Novel, Middlemarch, Feminine Tosh, George Eliot, Women and the Great American Novel, Printer's Row Book Festival, Women News

At Printer's Row Book Festival in Chicago last weekend, a big topic of conversation was a remark by a prominent male writer that no woman writer was his equal. He used the term "feminine tosh."Tosh" swiftly became the buzz word of the weekend.

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Harper Lee Biography Drama Continues

AP | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Penguin Press, The Mockingbird Next Door, Harper Lee, Marja Mills, Harper Lee Biography, Alice Lee, Books News

NEW YORK — Harper Lee's sister says the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" has indeed cooperated with a memoir about her. And the publisher has s...

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HuffPost Review: Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: In Cold Blood, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Scott Turow, Oprah Winfrey, Mary Badham, Tom Brokaw, Mary Murphy, Anna Quindlen, Truman Capote, Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck, Civil-Rights Movement, Hey Boo: Harper Lee and to Kill a Mockingbird, Hey Boo: Harper Lee and to Kill a Mockingbird Movie Review, Entertainment News

Hey, Boo celebrates a novel, an imagination and, ultimately, a defining piece of Americana. It's always nice to see a movie that values literature and literacy -- and this is one of the better ones.

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Why Harper Lee Never Wrote Another Book

latimes.com | Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Authors, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Mary Mcdonagh Murphy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hey Boo, Books News

Many books and films have partisans who insist their works are loved and admired by the American people, but "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the real thing...

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Confusion Over Harper Lee Book Continues

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Nelle Harper Lee, Harper Lee Book, Harper Lee, The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee, Chicago Tribune, To Kill a Mockingbird, Marja Mills, Tracy Locke, Alice Lee, Books News

The author of a forthcoming book about the ever-private Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” insisted on Friday that she had the coopera...

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Harper Lee Denies Cooperating With New Book

Harper Lee | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Harper Lee's Sister, Harper Lee Book, Chicago Tribune Reporters, The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Marja Mills, Harper Lee Biography, Books News

People are inevitably curious about Harper Lee. The author of the much-loved novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" has kept to herself since the book's public...

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New Harper Lee Biography To Include Unique Perspective

AP | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: New Harper Lee Biography, The Mockingbird Next Door, Chicago Tribune, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Marja Mills, Harper Lee Biography, Books News

NEW YORK -- A new book about "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee will include a unique perspective: Harper Lee's. "The Mockingbird Next Door," ...

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President Obama To Award 20 Arts And Humanities Medals

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philip Roth, Harper Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, National Medal of Arts, Barack Obama, President Obama, Literary Prizes, National Humanities Medal, Books News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is to award the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to 20 people Wednesday in the White...

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Welcome To The Imaginarium: The Art Of Ray Caesar

Kisa Lala | Posted 05.25.2011

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To Kill A Mockingbird Reminds Us That Compassion Holds The Key To Change

Matt Litton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Change, Change We Can Believe In, Harper Lee, Christianity, Christians, Racism, Justice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Compassion, Religion News

To Kill a Mockingbird forces us to look beneath the surface of our well-intentioned rhetoric ... It affirms that it is not propaganda, religious dogma, or political power that is the catalyst for change -- it is compassion.

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Blackberries Off: Ten Essential Movies For Easily Distracted Twenty-Somethings

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, George C. Scott, Digital Media, Francois Truffaut, Bicycle Thieves, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, Eva Marie Saint, All About Eve, Rashomon, Thanksgiving, The 400 Blows, Best Movies by Farr, Akira Kurosawa, Rod Steiger, Brian Dennehy, Robert Duvall, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, George Sanders, Theatre, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Mulligan, Preston Sturges, Matt Richtel, The New York Times, Veronica Lake, Best Movies on DVD, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Vittorio De Sica, Sidney Lumet, Joel Mcrea, 12 Angry Men, Digital Age, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bette Davis, Entertainment News

What if we only had a month in which to force our young adult offspring to see ten essential movies before they succumbed entirely to short-form digital content? My own personal picks.

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Obama Accepts Unreleased Jonathan Franzen Novel From Bookseller

New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harper Lee, Franzen, Steinbeck, Obama Vacation, Bookstore, Obama, Obama Booklist, Arc, Bookseller, Reader's Copy, Martha's Vinyard Bookstore, Freedom, Freedom Book, The Red Poiny, Jonathan Franzen, To Kill a Mockingbird, Books News

Little did President Obama know that by accepting an early copy of "Freedom," the new Jonathan Franzen novel, he would set off a small panic in the pu...

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Gregory Peck and Atticus Finch: One and the Same?

Mary Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brock Peters, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck, Harper Lee, Los Angeles News

When I first saw the movie, in my Alabama hometown, I was about Scout's age. That world -- where blacks and whites drank from different water fountains -- was my world.

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Mockingbird at 50: Thurgood Marshall and Atticus Finch

Gilbert King | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harpercollins, Atticus Finch, Thurgood Marshall, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gilbert King, Books News

My daughter has grown up in a different time and a different place than Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, and there's no denying that the country is different, too, in part because of the heroics of a real life lawyer named Thurgood Marshall.

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