To Kill A Mockingbird I. About the Author II. Characters III. Theme -- Prejudice IV. Chapter Summaries ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28 1926 in Monroeville Alabama. Monroeville is in southwest Alabama, about halfway between Montgomery and Mobile. She is the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. She has two sisters, Alice and Louise and one brother, Edwin. Harper Lee attended Huntingdon College 1944-45, studied law …showed first 75 words of 5689 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5689 total…must have felt a special obligation to protect them. Returning home, Scout finds her father sitting up reading a book of Jem's called The Gray Ghost. Atticus refuses at first to read aloud to her. The story is a scary one, he says, and Scout has had enough scary experiences for one day. But Scout is not afraid. "Nothin's real scary except in books," she tells Atticus. Scout never sees Mr. Arthur Radley ever again.