"To Kill a Mockingbird": Harper Lee's Life and Times

 Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1959 she finished the manuscript her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird. Soon after, she helped fellow-writer and friend  write an article forThe New Yorker which would later evolve into hTruman Capote is nonfiction masterpiece. On her childhood she was the youngest of four children, she grew up as a tomboy in a small town. Her father was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature, and also owned part of the local newspaper. For most of Lee’s life, her mother suffered from mental illness. In high school, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in 1944, she went to the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Lee stood apart from the other students—she could have cared less about fashion, makeup, or dating. Instead, she focused on her studies and on her writing. Lee was a member of the literary honor society and the glee club.After some time working on her adulthood, she quit her job and devoted herself to her craft. The Browns also helped her find an agent, Maurice Crain. He, in turn, was able to get the publishing firm interested in her first novel, which was first titled Go Set a Watchman, thenAtticus, and later To Kill a Mockingbird. Working with editor Tay Hohoff, Lee finished the manuscript in 1959. http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021?page=2sing 

For studying the context of production of "To Kill a Mockingbird", we will now research for the author´s life and times.
Harper Lee was living in a time when the United States had a lot of On On this times when Harper Lee lived the United States was passing through a lot of changes; the World wars, the depression, the racism and a lot of problems in that times. Lee was against racism, and wanted justice and equality for all people, that´s why her book had so much success.