Examples include William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, and Flannery O ' Connor.

* 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

Marina and Lee New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

The same year, Bullock appeared in Infamous, playing author Harper Lee.

* Harper Lee

* April 28 – Harper Lee, American author

** Harper Lee publishes her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which later wins the Pulitzer Prize for the best American novel of 1960.

* 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

* Language habits in human affairs ; an introduction to General Semantics by Irving J. Lee, Harper and Brothers, 1941.

* The language of wisdom and folly ; background readings in semantics edited by Irving J. Lee, Harper and Row, 1949.

Peck won the Academy Award with his fifth nomination, playing Atticus Finch, a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

The county seat, Monroeville, is the home of two notable 20th-century authors, Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee, who were childhood neighbors.

Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: David L. Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University ; Hugh Grant, the president and CEO of Monsanto ; Arthur H. Harper, managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners ; Gwendolyn King, president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau ; Laura K. Ipsen, senior VP and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, Inc., C. Steven McMillan, former chairman and CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation ; William U. Parfet, chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc .; Janice L. Fields, president of McDonald's USA ; George H. Poste, chief executive of Health Technology Networks ; and Jon R. Moeller, chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.

It is known as the home town of two prominent writers of the post World War II period, Truman Capote and Harper Lee, who were childhood friends in the 1930s.

Author Harper Lee was born and raised in Monroeville.

Truman Capote, a childhood neighbor and friend of Harper Lee, grew up in Monroeville.

* Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird

* Fannie Flagg, author, actress, 2012 recipient of the Harper Lee Award

The young character of Dill in the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird attempts to impress his new friends by claiming that Wheeler is his grandfather and left him his cavalry saber.

* Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird

Nelle Harper Lee ( born April 28, 1926 ) is an American author known for her 1961 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.

Nelle Harper Lee, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch, was raised in Monroeville, Alabama.

Having written several long stories, Harper Lee found an agent in November 1956.

When the novel was finally ready, she opted to use the name " Harper Lee ", rather than be misidentified as " Nellie ".

She sought to discuss the issue with Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, but her request for a meeting was reportedly denied.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

In the end, parliament was prorogued by Stephen Harper and the coalition dispersed following the election.

The hit by Harper was delivered five yards deep in the endzone.

Harper was flagged for an unnecessary roughness penalty.

The 1966 movie Harper starring Paul Newman was based on the first Lew Archer story The Moving Target ( 1949 ).

In the United States William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

Down and Out was successful and was next published by Harper and Brothers in New York.

His final book, Animal Signals, co-authored with David Harper was published in 2003 on signalling theory.

In later years, musician Nick Harper was asked about his childhood memories spent around The Who ; his first recollection was, " I remember Keith blowing up the toilets.

In DPP v Harper ( 1997 ) it was held that insanity is not generally a defence to strict liability offences.

The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on February 6, 2006, by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, following the general election that took place that year.

According to Harper, the motion was of a symbolic political nature, representing no constitutional change, no recognition of Quebec sovereignty, and no legal change in its political relations within the federation.

Troy Aikman was 19 out of 27 for 207 yards, with 1 interception while Alvin Harper was the team's top receiver with 3 catches for 75 yards.

Harper claims that no attempt to colonise the islands was made till 1841.

The first prize was publication by Harper and Hughes garnered widespread critical acclaim with the book's release in September 1957, winning a Somerset Maugham Award.

John Harper ( architect ) designed Victoria University Medical College ( 1871-2 ), Gerrard Street East at Sackville Street, Toronto which was demolished.

Stephen Harper was elected Prime Minister in 2006 following the defeat of Paul Martin's government in a motion of no confidence.

However, it was eliminated from the 2006 William Morrow / Harper Collins, and the 2001 DoubleDay Science Fiction reprinting of The Martian Chronicles.

In May 1973 Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike, during which New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur were killed and Shakur and Trooper James Harper were wounded.

On May 2, 1973, at about 12: 45 a. m., Assata Shakur, along with Zayd Malik Shakur ( born James F. Costan ) and Sundiata Acoli ( born Clark Squire ), was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick by State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle ( Car 820 ), for driving with a broken tail light.