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@Welcomeback574 Says:
Uploading my consciousness to the clouds so my soul can haunt Atticus Finch
@Welcomeback574 Says:
I absolutely loved it
@mikeroberts7921 Says:
I grew up near Monroeville. Had an opportunity to meet her and passed on it. While I would have loved to meet her, I figured she would be just fine without another adoring fan. And I have to wonder at anyone wishing to ban her book. Simply insane.
@merikatools568 Says:
Will Keeps grow pubes back?
@user-vi3hc5id1j Says:
nohomes
@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff Says:
The woman seems to have been a bit of a phony.
Her one-hit-wonder status largely because of Truman Capote.
The fact that she never wrote anything else speaks volumes.
@trevscribbles Says:
I'm definitely in the camp of "Go Set a Watchman" being a previous draft which shouldn't have been published, or at least shouldn't have been published as a sequel. It would have at least been more appropriate to release it as a fascinating little insight of where "...Mockingbird" eventually came from.
@invisigoth510 Says:
I read the book in high school & again in college in a fiction into film class where we read a book or short story & then watched a movie or television adaptation & compared & contrasted the two works & discussed why there might have been changes or omissions in the film version
The works we studied:
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
The Big Sleep by Dashiell Hammett
Sons & Lovers by DH Lawrence
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
@sebastianniqvist3144 Says:
This dude is on speed
@louise8001 Says:
This book was, and still is, mandatory reading in Australia for all Year 10 high schools. And yes, there were still those uneducated, narrow-minded simpletons who are still trying to have it removed from the curriculum.
@briandoss9232 Says:
Absolutely loved the book. Did not love the 110 page packet I had to do along with it.
@estherdimaggio9156 Says:
Crazy how women are half the population and yet there's only one female Biographics every several months or more. I'd rather hear about any of the remarkable famous women of history than like, the barrel-scraping content of the creator of Silly Putty or something. I am genuinely confused lol
@Rasdawg915 Says:
A couple years back I did some work in Monroeville Alabama for a few months. The people there are extremely proud being associated with Harper Lee.
@WNYfellow Says:
Simon - that's a pretty nice sport coat! Maybe you can enlist the brand as a sponsor ...
@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 Says:
Wow we’re getting down there. Wonder when we’ll get to Thomas Crapper the inventor of the toilet
@tammy6610 Says:
It's sad that today the woke are trying to sanitize her and many others work. Even goosebumps are being rewritten as to not offended people.
@regina3743 Says:
She is buried in the same cemetery as Alfred (Son) Boulware, who was the inspiration for her character, Boo Radley. Alfred is a distant cousin of mine.
@patriciacole3030 Says:
FYI--I am a distant relative of Nell (not Nellie) Harper Lee (she was my grandfather's first cousin). Our family is NOT connected to Robert E. Lee. We came from a different family named Lee.
@TeamQuigley Says:
Do a video on Marie Corelli! Seems like noone has a good video on her life and works.
@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat Says:
When we were forced to read it in school I caught crap because I didn't like it, liked the film even less. And before you make a nasty remark I'll remind you I have a right to my opinion, I'm not obligated to like something because everybody else does.
@NaiveAgenda Says:
To Kill A Mockingbird is now being taken of shelves in Ontario, Canada in high schools because Atticus is a 'white savior' and has 'problematic themes and language'. I'm not kidding. These are the times we are living in.
@billsimonis Says:
This was required reading in my English class (I think it was Freshenmen English). The book was very well written. Most of my classmates didn't like reading in general, but I really liked it. This book and another book titled The Bamboo Curtain were my favorite required reading books.
@maryjohnson6796 Says:
Have you done capote and the true crime genre?
@rebecca1431 Says:
This guy is as bald as a billiard ball, but he promotes Keeps to keep your hair. Wjhat a hypocrite!
@proto-geek248 Says:
What's with the snow?
What is that supposed to do?
Why is it snowing in the summer, in the courtroom, INSIDE Truman Capote's house AND the White House? Is it supposed to be artsy? Cuz it isn't.
@PaulineMontagna Says:
I see the Harper Lee story as a tragedy of thwarted potential that was revealed by the publication of Go Set a Watchman. I think the most likely scenario is that Go Set a Watchman as it was later published was indeed the first draft of what was to become To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s editor Tay Hohoff didn’t like the complete novel, but saw potential in one small part of it for a very different novel, in fact one that would be the absolute opposite of the first draft and would reflect her beliefs and values and not Harper Lee’s at all. I believe that it was in fact Tay Hohoff who shaped To Kill a Mockingbird to the point where Harper Lee felt that there was nothing of hers left and that, to all intents and purposes, it wasn’t her novel at all but Tay Hohoff’s. When To Kill a Mockingbird received such accolades, Lee felt like a total fraud to the extent of losing all belief in herself as a writer and that is why she could never write another book.
@kimsmith1746 Says:
I used to read To Kill a Mockingbird once a year. I pre-ordered Go Set a Watchman and read it straight through. I've not read either book since. GSAW ruined TKAM for me. It affirmed that no matter how progressive someone may be in their adulthood, when they get old, the prejudices taught to them in their childhood rise to the surface.
@samuelbarber6177 Says:
A great writer. I recently read Go Set A Watchman and despite being very obviously a first draft, it’s still a great book, in my opinion. Worth a read if you’re interested.
@susancarr9955 Says:
Um, you do know that Lee dropped the Nelle from her professional name because she didn't want people calling her Nelly which she absolutely hated with a passion? Just sayin'.
@jackiebinns6205 Says:
My favorite book and movie😂
@clairevancleave1508 Says:
You’ve also mispronounced Capote’s name numerous times. Yours is unimpressive work.
@fritzidler9871 Says:
Harper Lee's reclusiveness reminds me of J.D. Salinger.
@trog7986 Says:
To Kill a Mockingbird is a beautiful book. I read it in middle school and it lead to many great discussions about racism and justice. I believe it should be required reading in every state
@noneofurbusiness5223 Says:
People forget how "the new south" was about hope & African-Americans were moving back to the south.
@Doobydoobydoo1974 Says:
I love Biographics. It’s educational, informative, and to the point. Is it possible to make a biographics for former French President François Mitterrand? An important figure whose impact is still felt today. Thank you.
@kevinlawrence8580 Says:
Do an expose of Gordon Parks.
@fireseeker4him Says:
I watched the film as a child and loved it so much I wanted to read the book (a rare thing for me at that age). The film is one of the best adaptations in existence.
@btetschner Says:
Ideas for future videos:
x Sappho
x Ivan Turgenev
x Ezra Pound
@markcarey67 Says:
Some people only have one book in them but it happens to be a work of timeless genius - Joseph Heller and Catch 22 also comes to mind as well as Confederacy of Dunces
@_nobodyxi Says:
Hey Simon
I'm still waiting on the Caracalla video
@coffinsmokej7408 Says:
Booker T Washington please
@PricelessAudiobooks Says:
00:05
In 1960, an American novel called To Kill A Mockingbird appeared from a then unknown writer. It became an immediate bestseller, won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, and was adapted into a 1962 Motion Picture.
00:57
Harper Lee became a recluse after publishing To Kill A Mockingbird, ignoring requests for interviews and appearances and writing little. She avoided the limelight and lived quietly in New York City and Monroeville in Alabama, but remained a force in the literary world for decades.
01:56
Nelly Harper Lee claimed to be related to Robert E. Lee through her father, Marta Coleman Lee.
02:18
The young Nelly was a member of the famed Lee family, and loved to read. She immortalized a childhood friend as the character Dil Harris, a small, somewhat effeminate boy, uninterested and ill-equipped for the Rough and Tumble play of other boys's age.
03:14
Lee's childhood was in a segregated, racially divided region of Jim Crow laws and beliefs, where children played barefoot and with their older siblings, and where the Ku Klux Klan remained a force. Poverty was a daily fact of life, and was nearly later attributed to Atticus Fitch.
04:15
Nelly completed her high school education in 1944, attended the University of Alabama for a year, and attended a summer program at Oxford University in 1948, but never finished her law degree.
04:40
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05:47
Nelly Harper nearly began working in a bookstore before landing a better paying job as an airline agent and renewing her childhood friendship with Truman Capote.
06:09
Lee Lee wrote several stories for magazine publication, while at the same time working on a novel she titled Go Set The Watchman. Capote took Lee with him to campus to investigate the murder of the Clutter family, and Lee was able to open doors and establish trust from those who otherwise treated Capote with suspicion.
07:27
Capote labored as a new genre for six years, dedicating it in part to Harper Lee, but did not acknowledge her contribution to the work. This created tensions between the two long time friends, and led to speculation that Capote had authored the book.
08:39
Lee consulted with Horton Foot and Gregory Peck when writing the screenplay for To Kill A Marking Bird. Peck and his family remained friends with Lee.
08:58
She wrote The Years Told Me His Secret, but her friendship with Truman Capote was strained when word of her involvement within Cold Blood emerged.
09:16
Lee retreated from the limelight, avoiding the social scene in New York in which Capote thrived, and maintained a New York address for decades on East 82nd Street in Manhattan, but traveled frequently to Monroeville and other destinations. She refused to add an introduction to the book as subsequent editions were printed.
10:33
To Kill a Mockingbird spells out a code of honor and conduct Christian in its ethic that is the heritage of all Southerners.
11:04
Harper Lee returned to Monroeville in the 1970s and began researching a new book, tentatively titled The Reverend. She socialized with family and friends, enjoyed playing golf, and avoided reporters and other writers who wanted to interview her.
11:41
In Monroeville, she worked on The Reverend for nearly a decade, but abandoned the project by the 1990s.
11:59
In 1965, she published an article in Mccall's and in 1985, she published an open letter to Oprah Winfrey.
12:17
Monroeville, the town that served as the model for Maycomb in the novel Kill a Mockingbird, was ready to celebrate the book's role without bothering its author.
12:48
Lee escaped to New York, where she was for the most part Anonymous in Monroeville. She was forced to either take or threaten to take legal action on several occasions, and eventually grew to detest the commercialization of Mockingbird and the tourist business which blossomed around town.
13:50
There were other legal actions stemming from former literary agents' machinations over copyrights and royalties. Alice Lee handled them, jealously guarding police privacy.
14:10
To Kill a Mockingbird retained its long-standing popularity and was the focal point of controversy. Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom America's Higher Civilian Award in 2007 and the 2010 National Medal of Arts.
15:06
Nelly Harper Lee was living in an assisted living facility, dealing with declining Health, and was guarded closely by Alice, who likely had never married.
15:34
A lost manuscript written by Harper Lee, a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, was discovered in a safe deposit box. The book revealed Atticus Finch to be a star segregationist, a believer in White Supremacy, and an active member of the Ku Klux Klan in 1950s Alabama.
16:42
Lee's involvement with the publication of Watchmen became a point of controversy, as she remained unavailable for comment, yet some asserted she was lucid and had been active in the preparation of Goat and a Watchman for publication.
17:17
At the age of 89, Nelly Harper Lee passed away in Monroeville. Her funeral was held the next day, and she was buried alongside her sister Alice in a family plot.
17:43
Lee's will provided that her literary assets including copyrights be transferred to a trust established in 2011. Tonya Carter was named executor of her estate thus in death.
18:26
There have been hints that Harper Lee may have written more than one novel, but it is unknown whether they exist.
@deanadams3099 Says:
There is very little if any information here that has not been covered extensively in dozens of other sources.
Yes children the world was once ugly and unfair to many.
@OnlyMichaelSparrow Says:
To Kill a Mockingbird changed my outlook on reading and about life.
@inguss27i Says:
Wasn't there a group in germany years back that burned books that didn't follow their narrative? Give me a minute, it seems that anyone disagreeing with todays delusional agenda removing/cancelling books is called the same thing. Oh well, ill remember it and get back to you.
@maxhand1562 Says:
I live in Alabama and attended a workshop decades ago led by an author and educator who had done his best to arrange an interview with Harper Lee for years, but always unsuccessful. He did have friends in Monroeville, and went one day to visit them and to go with them to shop at the big outlet center that was there at that time. While shopping, another local came up to his friends and started talking to them. It was Harper Lee. So I don't believe he ever got to interview her, but he did get to meet her.
@briancross7835 Says:
"Alabama Humanities Award"
Sounds rather oxymoronic...
@jamescarter5883 Says:
Great video. Could you do one on Andrew Jackson? He had an interesting life, and he's a polarizing president.
@ryokolago Says:
Next: Dovsoietski and Tolstoy and Huxley and Bradbury 🥺 please
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