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4 unusual facts about Harper Lee


Cecilia Peck

Her son Harper Daniel Peck-Voll, born in 1999, is named after Harper Lee.

Charles J. Shields

“This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself,” wrote Garrison Keillor in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

James J. Kilpatrick

After a school board in suburban Richmond ordered school libraries to dispose of all copies of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, because the board found the book immoral, Kilpatrick wrote, "A more moral novel scarcely could be imagined."

Lane cake

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a Lane Cake is given as a welcome gift to Aunt Alexandra by Miss Maudie Atkinson.


Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, a direct offshoot of the imprint, publishes eminent authors such as Peter Singer, Harper Lee, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Russell Banks, Thomas Pynchon, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sylvia Plath, and Thornton Wilder among many others.

Northern Mockingbird

It also features in the title and central metaphor of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.

Public defender

The depiction of the public defender in film runs the gamut from the sleazy Ned Racine in Lawrence Kasden's 1981 neo-noir film Body Heat, to the honorable Atticus Finch from the 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Scottsboro Boys

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about growing up in the Deep South in the 1930s.

Seckatary Hawkins

The books have always enjoyed an enthusiastic readership, the most notable Harper Lee, who mentions two of them in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the late television personality Bill Cullen, who spoke of Seckatary Hawkins during at least one broadcast.

Tomboy

Famous fictional tomboys include the character of "George" (Georgina) in Enid Blyton's series The Famous Five, said by the author to be modeled on herself; the character of Nancy Drew in the mystery fiction series; Scout Finch in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird and Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games


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Andrew Montgomery

Montgomery moved to Brighton in 2005 and, following the break-up of Amityville, embarked on a collaboration with Keris Howard, formerly of the band Harper Lee.

Little Green Cars

The US portion of the 2013 tour included a live performance of their single Harper Lee on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.