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The 50th anniversary of "To Kill A Mockingbird"
"To Kill A Mockingbird" - Still Moving People 50 Years Later
Today is the 50th anniversary of this amazing novel. In that 50 years this Pulitzer Prize winner was never out of print, and has never stopped teaching its noble truths.
Harper Lee was inspired to write the book by her own father, who was a lawyer and defended a black man in a murder case. He was reportedly so inconsolable after losing that case that he never practiced law again.
Harper Lee wrote her book, and when it took off and became a runaway success, she went back home and never wrote another book. But if you're only going to write one book ... what a book!
ABC News did a feature tonight on "To Kill A Mockingbird" and named Harper Lee, who is now 84, their person of the week.
Harper Lee, 50 Years After 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_A_Mockingbird
*edit* Whenever there's a discussion about role models, I never say it out loud, but Atticus Finch pops into my head every time.
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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