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To kill a mockingbird

When a black man is accused of raping a Southern white woman, the outcome of the trial seems to be a foregone conclusion until a lawyer agrees to defend him.

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Main Author:	Lee, Harper (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperCollins, 1999.
Subjects:	Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Trials (Rape) > Fiction. Girls > Fiction. Southern States > Fiction. Domestic fiction. Legal fiction (Literature) Lawyers > Fiction. Southern States > Race relations > Fiction.
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Summary:	When a black man is accused of raping a Southern white woman, the outcome of the trial seems to be a foregone conclusion until a lawyer agrees to defend him.
Physical Description:	323 pages ; 21
ISBN:	9780060194994 0060194995 9780060935467 0060935464 9780061743528 0061743526 9780446310789 0446310786
Author Notes:	Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926. She studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, and spent a year as an exchange student in Oxford University, Wellington Square. She moved to New York where she worked as an airlines reservations clerk while pursuing a literary career. In 1959, she accompanied Truman Capote to Holcombe, Kansas, as a research assistant for Capote's novel In Cold Blood. Her first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. The book was adapted as a feature film in 1962 and a London stage play in 1987. Her second book, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. She died on February 19, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography)