Harper Lee remembered on her 100th birthday

Today is Harper Lee’s 100th birthday. Born in a small town in Alabama, where her father worked as a lawyer. 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. ⏰📚💙🎧📚🖋️ #books #reading #writers #HarperLee #book

Harper Lee--#Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 𝘛𝘰 𝘒𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘔𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥--was born #OTD in 1926. + Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2007 + Nat'l Medal of Arts, 2010 + 1962 film adaptation won 3 Oscars Lee used her first name, Nelle--her grandmother's name spelled backwards. #litsky #booksky #filmsky

Happy 100th birthday Harper Lee! Alabama storyteller Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. Like so many, I learned early from To Kill a Mockingbird that real courage means doing what's right, even when it's hard.  I often quote this line from Atticus Finch….

April 28, 1926: Harper Lee, the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the modern classic coming-of-age story that explores the roots of racism and prejudice through the eyes of a young girl, is born (as Nelle Harper Lee) in Monroeville, Ala. She based the novel's hero, Atticus Finch, on her father.

Happy Birthday Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, one of my favorite books 📕

Happy 100th birthday to Harper Lee! Let's celebrate it. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, Lee achieved literary notoriety with a single book, then proceeded to publish sparingly. Check it out in our last newsletter: www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/ #books #literature

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but 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.” (To Kill a Mockingbird) Harper Lee, born #otd 1926

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." -- Harper Lee, born #OTD 1926, in "To Kill a Mockingbird"

4/28/1926 — b. Harper Lee, American author. Renowned for her Pulitzer Prize winning modern American #literature classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960); assisted Truman Capote in his research for "In Cold Blood." Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007) #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #BookSky

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My favorite part is them using the phrase "spent years" to describe just two discrete events that happened years apart. I bought To Kill A Mockingbird in 2002 and Go Set A Watchman in 2018, therefore according to Bloomberg I've spent years quietly acquiring the novels of Harper Lee

Born 28 Apr 1926, Harper Lee was a US novelist who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Despite publishing only two books, Lee was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature, such was her impact in the world of literature. #HarperLee

Happy Harper Lee's birthday! Take out the trash:

In 2009, half a century after TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD was published, Harper Lee received a royalty check for over $1.6 million—and that was just for the first six months of the year! If you want to know why, join me tonight on Zoom at the Stanford Humanities Center! shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee was born on this day 100 years ago.