Harper lee biography powerpoint fourth grade
Guide your students through a brief history of author Harper Lee's life in this beautifully designed reading comprehension activity.
The document provides an overview of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It summarizes the key characters, setting, themes and symbols....
Harper Lee.
Presentation on theme: "Harper Lee."— Presentation transcript:
1 Harper Lee
2 Nelle Harper Lee, whose family is related to the confederate General Robert E.
Lee, was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 26, 1926She was the youngest of three children of Amasa Coleman and Frances Finch Lee
3 Lee attended the University of Alabama, where she studied Law
Lee left school one semester short of graduating to move to New York and to pursue her dream of writing.
4 After some time Lee submitted a number of short stories to a literary agent.
The agent liked one of the stories and encouraged Lee to expand on it.
5 Eventually Lee’s short story was lengthened into a novel called, To Kill a Mockingbird.
In 1960 the novel was finally publishedThe book was an instant success and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction-the first time since 1942 that a woman received the honor
6 To Kill a Mockingbird also spent eighty-five weeks on the best-seller list and became an
