Shields, Charles J.

Summary: This biography tells the story of how Harper Lee struggled to become an author and created one of the most popular novels of the 20th century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: B LEE SHI

Summary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATED

Flynt, Wayne

Summary: "A memoir of Wayne Flynt's friendship with Harper Lee, centered on a collection of letters between Harper Lee, her sisters, ... Wayne Flynt, and his wife"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 FLY

Murphy, Mary

Summary: Explores the influence and popularity of Harper Lee's only novel, reflecting on the context and history of the novel's setting and the social changes it inspired.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEY

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HEY

Hegedus, Bethany

Summary: Nelle Harper Lee grew up in the rocky red soil of Monroeville, Alabama. From the get-go she was a spitfire. Unlike most girls at that time and place, Nelle preferred overalls to dresses and climbing trees to tea parties. Nelle loved to watch her daddy try cases in the courtroom. And she and her best friend, Tru, devoured books and wrote stories of their own. More than anything Nelle loved...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 813.54 Heg

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEE

Cep, Casey N.

Summary: The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 CEP

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 CEP

Mills, Marja.

Summary: "One journalist's memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access they gave her to share the story of their lives. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, HARPER MIL

Murphy, Mary McDonagh.

Summary: "In celebration of the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird (June 8, 2010), an American classic that sells almost a million copies per year, Scout, Atticus, and Boo features interview selections with prominent figures including Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw, Wally Lamb, and Anna Quindlen on how the book has impacted their lives"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 MUR