\u201cFew contemporary literary American novels have such a sweep and fewer have the confidence to take on social issues in the way Harper Lee does. Much literary writing today about racism is cloaked in irony or in so much lyricism that it becomes gaseous. Lee refuses to hide behind aesthetics. Her writing is so beautiful, so steady and even and limpid, that she might have evaded confronting these tribalisms head-on, but she doesn\u2019t.\u201d \u2014<\/span>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFrom my sister\u2019s nightstand, I grabbed the paperback she\u2019d been yapping about,\u00a0<\/span>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>. The cover had a Technicolor picture of Gregory Peck and some little girl in overalls. I opened the book and read the first sentence, \u2018When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.\u2019 Three days later, I finished the book. A novel had never kidnapped me before. Until\u00a0<\/span>Mockingbird<\/i>, I\u2019d had no idea that literature could exert so strong a power.\u201d\u00a0\u2013<\/span>Wally Lamb\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI remember reading a portion of it thinking, reluctantly, this is really good. But I couldn\u2019t admit it\u2026 It\u2019s hard to imagine\u00a0Empire Falls<\/em>\u00a0being written without\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, because I don\u2019t think Tick could have existed without Scout.\u201d \u2014Richard Russo<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I go back, I\u2019m impressed more by the simplicity of the prose . . . Although it\u2019s plainly written from the point of view of an adult, looking back through a child\u2019s eyes, there\u2019s something beautifully innocent about the point of view, and yet it\u2019s very wise.\u201d \u2014Mark Childress<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI promised myself that when I grew up and I was a man, I would try to do things as good and noble as what Atticus had done for Tom Robinson.\u201d \u2014Scott Turow<\/strong><\/p>\n To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>\u00a0is probably in the top three of books like that, where you utterly live in the book, and walk around in the book, and know everyone down to the ground in the book, and then leave, and then inevitably come back. I can\u2019t imagine anyone I like reading\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>and then not rereading it.\u201d \u2014Anna Quindlen<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI think it is our national novel.\u201d \u2014Oprah Winfrey<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many famous authors, near and far, have been affected by Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. See what they have to say about the book below. \u201cFew contemporary literary American novels have such a sweep and fewer have the confidence to take on social issues in the way Harper Lee does. Much literary writing today … Continue reading 10 Famous Authors Discuss To Kill a Mockingbird<\/span> ![\"theme2a\"](\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/theme2a.jpg\")
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