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17 Mar 2018, 4:47 am by SHG
So what did Lee expect? [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 9:58 am
The controversial publication of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman, in 2015, allows us to see Atticus Finch from a new angle. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 7:22 am
"A Medal for Miss Lee: What would Atticus Finch make of the 'high-tech lynching' of Clarence Thomas? [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 1:29 pm
She later became the oldest person still practicing law in Alabama in 2012 and didn't retire until she turned 100.The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was originally entitled Atticus, took Harper Lee several years to write and was published in 1960. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 10:43 am by Elie Mystal
Why nobody should care if Harper Lee made Atticus Finch racist now. [read post]
16 Jul 2015, 5:34 am
"The particular kind of racial rhetoric that Atticus embraces (and that he and Jean Louise are careful to distinguish from low-rent, white-trash bigotry) is a complex and, in its own estimation, 'liberal' ideology: there is no contradiction between Atticus defending an innocent black man accused of rape in 'Mockingbird' and Atticus mistrusting civil rights twenty years later. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 10:10 am by Karen Breda
The Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction is awarded annually to the novel that "best exemplifies the role of lawyers in society in the spirit of Atticus Finch. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 5:18 am
Those who have been most interested in getting their hands on another Harper Lee book may feel that the book they are getting is much worse than no book at all, because it takes away what they most loved about "Mockingbird," that fine figure of a man, Atticus Finch.10. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 6:02 am
Harper Lee must have known the meaning of the great Aaron Sorkin and intended him to imbue her Atticus Finch with present-day angst! [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 10:57 am by Susan I. Nelson
John Raley’s metered persistence exemplifies the moral courage depicted by Atticus Finch, the attorney in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird.The case led to Governor of Texas Rick Perry signing into law the Michael Morton Act designed to remove barriers for accessing evidence and more open discovery. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 10:56 am by David R. Papke
Sadly, Lee’s final years were full of controversy. [read post]
28 May 2013, 8:55 am by Jeanine Cali
The annual Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction is given to a book-length fictional work that “best exemplifies the role of lawyers in society in the spirit of Atticus Finch. [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 4:15 pm by Alfred Brophy
Atticus has signed on with the local Citizens Council. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 8:26 am
" Here is the abstract.Atticus Finch – the fictional hero of Harper Lee’s 'To Kill A Mockingbird' – is a legal icon. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 9:32 am by Lindsay Stafford Mader
’” The Texas Bar Journal has assembled a list of its past coverage on Lee, Mockingbird, Atticus, and more. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 3:12 pm by Lindsay Stafford Mader
Typically, Phelps and Banks—who have become close friends—try to have Atticus Finch Day on Harper Lee’s April 28 birthday. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 8:05 am by Tiffany Blofield
”  Atticus responds, “[m]ost people are, Scout, when you finally see them. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 5:55 am by Christine Corcos
This essay explores one central part of Tom Robinson’s trial in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: Atticus Finch’s cross-examination of Mayella Ewell. [read post]