THE ULTIMATE
On this day, April 28th 1926, Harper Lee tha author of the American Modern Classic 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was born.
Harper Lee saw her book as a phenomenom, published in 1960 it tackled issues of innocence in the face of prejudice, particularly racial prejudice of the United States in the era of segregation. Doing so from the viewpoint of a young white girl, Scout, her older brother Jem and friend Dill, as their father Atticus defends a wrongly accused black man Tom Robinson. Whilst the children also speculate as to their reclusive neighbour, Boo Radley. The book has never been out of print, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, and earning Harper Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. The book has become a mainstay in anti-racist teaching in schools, not just in the USA but across the English speaking world.
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