Harper Lee

1926 - *

contemporary award-winning American writer

American writer, famous for her race relations novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. The book became an international bestseller and was adapted into screen in 1962. Lee was 34 when the work was published, and it has remained her only novel.

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Descendent from Robert E. Lee, the Southern Civil War gener... [read entire biography]

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Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk! -- Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

Nathaniel Lee

Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him. -- Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

Nathaniel Lee

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. -- Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Nathaniel Lee

'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way. -- Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Nathaniel Lee

Man, false man, smiling, destructive man! -- Theodosius. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Nathaniel Lee

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. -- Memoirs of Lee. Eulogy on Washington, Dec. 26, 1799.

Henry Lee

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