His English teacher encourages Charlie, also an outsider, to read the book as a bit of teen angst therapy.In 1960, American novelist Harper Lee published her debut book, To Kill A Mockingbird, which narrated the story of Atticus Finch, a white lawyer in Alabama who defends a black man accused of raping a young white woman named Mayella Ewell.
Stephen Chbosky includes How to Kill A Mockingbird in his own coming-of-age story, which follows the protagonist Charlie through his freshman year of high school. And you think about more things and greater concepts after you read something like that." "You know, you hear storytelling like in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and it just…it makes your mind wander," she said later in a promo for her record label Big Machine. "It makes you feel like it makes your world more vast.
The reference is fitting for someone who has written lyrics about feeling like an outsider, and got her start in the country music scene in Nashville. "In school, I loved reading To Kill a Mockingbird, and I'm very interested in any writing from a child's perspective," she told Rolling Stone in an interview in 2009. The songstress has been called the "the poet laureate of puberty" for her appeal to young women - and those fans who feel Tay just gets them may have Lee to thank for that. The movies Infamous and Capote - in which Sandra Bullock and Catherine Keener play Lee, respectively - captured their friendship and lives as writers.
Lee helped report on the murder in Kansas in 1959 that became the basis for Capote's famous book, In Cold Blood.
View Gallery: A look back at 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Ī close childhood friend, Lee said she based the character Dill on the fellow writer, who spent summers at his relatives' house next door.
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