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"... it was a debut novel written by a woman who’d been earning a living as a clerk for an airline company at the time she’d written it." -- Daniel Clay
== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Lee's father was a local lawyer in small-town Alabama, who for some time served on the state legislature. Lee studied Law at the University of Alabama in the late 1940s, but did not graduate. She was employed as a reservation clerk until 1959, when her first novel was published.
Lee's father was a local lawyer in small-town Alabama, who for some time served on the state legislature. Lee studied Law at the University of Alabama in the late 1940s, but did not graduate. She was employed as a reservation clerk until 1959, when her first novel was published.<ref>
"... it was a debut novel written by a woman who’d been earning a living as a clerk for an airline company at the time she’d written it." -- [[Daniel Clay]]</ref>
== To Kill A Mockingbird ==
== To Kill A Mockingbird ==
The novel is partly autobiographical. It deals with racial prejudice and class in [[The South|the American south]] in the early 1930s. The book is set around a framework of historical events, with references to President Roosevelt and Hitler. In the Depression-era small southern town, a racially-charged trial takes place. The defendant, an African-American man is charged with the rape of a white woman. He is defended by Atticus Finch, an attorney with a strong moral center. The story is narrated by Finch's daughter, Scout, who is aged five when the story begins, eight when it ends. Lee endows her character with streetsmarts and simple honesty such that the story is pervaded by a sense of overwhelming authenticity.
The novel is partly autobiographical. It deals with racial prejudice and class in [[The South|the American south]] in the early 1930s. The book is set around a framework of historical events, with references to President Roosevelt and Hitler. In the Depression-era small southern town, a racially-charged trial takes place. The defendant, an African-American man is charged with the rape of a white woman. He is defended by Atticus Finch, an attorney with a strong moral center. The story is narrated by Finch's daughter, Scout, who is aged five when the story begins, eight when it ends. Lee endows her character with streetsmarts and simple honesty such that the story is pervaded by a sense of overwhelming authenticity.