Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee - 1274 Words

Brandi Ortiz English IV McCraw 2/24/15 Harper Lee: The One Hit Wonder â€Å"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† (Lee. 72) Many teens all over the world have read or heard this iconic quote, whether by force because it was in the schools curriculum or for my fellow book worms it is a great novel to just lose yourself in. To Kill a Mockingbird, winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and several other literary awards was written by Harper Lee in nineteen sixty. Famed author Nelle Harper Lee was born on the twenty-eighth of April, nineteen twenty-six in†¦show more content†¦Lee was a daughter to an ill mother and Truman living with family friends after being abandoned by his own parents. It is believed by The Telegraph journal that Lee’s past helped influence her growing interest in English Literature. To help feed her cultivating lust with such literature, after Lee graduated in 1944, she went to the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery. It is said that Lee â€Å"stood apart from the other students.† (Biography.com) Rather than caring about fashion or dating, Lee focused on her studies and her own personal writing. Throughout Lee’s college career, in Montgomery, she was a member of the literary honor society. After transferring to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Lee was characterized to be â€Å"a loner and an individualist.† (Biography.com) Using her new title as motivation, Lee pursued her interest in writing by contributing to the school’s newspaper and also a humor magazine, the Rammer Jammer, which she later became the editor of. Sadly after Lee was accepted into the university’s law school she was forced, if one may say, to leave her post as editor of the Rammer Jammer. After much soul seeking and countless heart-to-heart co nversations with her family, Lee dropped all interest in law and moved to New York City to follow her dream to become a writer. In nineteen forty-nine, a twenty-three year old Harper Lee arrived in New York City where she worked for the British Overseas Air