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Harper feels strongly, however, "that a writer should write about what he knows and write
______ 2 ______".
Lee's ____ 3 ______ to American literature is still an important one.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a
______ 4 _____novel with a
______ 5 _____ message.
For years, ____ 6 ____ have praised the excellence of her novel. Lee has said in an interview that her favorite authors are Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane Austen (writing in that little corner of the world of hers and making it universal).
Lee was born in the sleepy little town of Monroeville, Alabama population 7,000, on April 28, 1926, to lawyer, Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. She has been compared to the ______ 7 ____tomboy who narrates her novel. She was the youngest of three children whose father is a lawyer and she has a heavy touch of Alabama in her accent.
Lee bagan her writing career after leaving college in 1950 just before completing her law studies. The ____ 8 ______ of writing the novel took several years.
During this time, she quit working and was supported by friends who believed in her work.
The book was published in 1960 and since that time has been a
____ 9 ____with high school students. The movie
____ 10 ____ has also been extremly successful and won two Academy Awards in 1962.
To Kill a Mockingbird is ______11_____ by six-year-old Jean Finch, nicknamed
____ 12 ____ who, along with her older brother, watch as their father who is an attorney demonstrates his ______13____and courage by standing his ground in defending a man he believes to be innocent.
Throughout the book, the mockingbird, who sings almost continuously, _______14______ innocence and joy.
Despite the fact that Harper Lee's
____ 15 ____ rests on a single book, To Kill a Mockingbird firmly ____16____ its place in American literature.