Topic: Harper Lee

Karl Marx, Harper Lee sold big in 2011

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The First Grader" — 3 STARS Drama about an octogenarian former revolutionary's struggles to read. (1:43) PG. At the Beekman and Angelika. . More...
While Monroeville, Ala., is Harper Lee's hometown, she made New York City her town by choice.. . It was here she wrote the bulk of "To Kill a...

Writer Harper Lee denies taking part in memoir

American writer Harper Lee, who rose to fame a half-century ago with her first and only novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," denied Thursday that she had agreed to take part in a new biography about her life."Contrary to recent news reports ...

Obama to honor Meryl Streep, James Taylor

WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - Actress Meryl Streep, singer-songwriter James Taylor and author Joyce Carol Oates are among the cultural luminaries named as recipients of prestigious White House awards for the arts and humanities.President Barack Obama is slated to formally present the 2010 ...
To ensure they retain this knowledge, students can reinforce their learning with some of the following titles from this eighth grade recommended reading list.. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Perhaps no other book in modern American literature has stirred the ...

Great books into great movies

As film historians, arts and culture experts, and kids who've successfully cheated on book reports will tell you, the Western literature canon has long been a go-to source for prestigious movies. Lolita (1962) Vladimir Nabokov's tortured tale of ?nymphet? obsession ...

List of Five

What constitutes a literary 'great' is a highly contentious issue subject to great debate. Forget 'Pride and Prejudice', for sheer power of emotion it's Emily, not Charlotte, who rules the roost. No. 4 - 'The Colour of Magic' by Terry Pratchett: A ...
Film maker Mary Murphy has taken the conjoined nature of To Kill a Mockingbird in novel and movie form and produced both a book and documentary film about author Harper Lee's story. Still the interest and curiosity factor remain about Lee ...