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Lee's Mockingbird Era Endures in American Culture
A profile of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird notes its broad classroom and reading-room appeal since 1960. It highlights Lee's unassuming fame, the novel's multiple genres, Atticus Finch's courtroom heroism, Pulitzer Prize, 1962 film, and enduring impact with 40 million copies sold by 2015. It also mentions controversy over racial content and Johnson's view of Lee guarding privacy.
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Lee
Jane Austen
South Alabama
Norman Mailer
J.D. Salinger
Monroeville
McDonald's
Scout
Atticus Finch
The
New Yorker
Gregory Peck
Atticus
Young Law
Library of Congress
West Point
Claudia Durst Johnson