Born, Nelle Harper Lee in 1926, Monroeville, Alabama. She attended school at three different colleges where she studied law, Huntington College from 1944-1945, University of Alabama from 1945- 1949, and studied one year at Oxford University. The study of law and its principles helped her develop the way she was brought up. Her upbringing gave her raw material to write her only book. She was the youngest of four kids. When she started off in the real world she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Airlines and BOAC in New York City. To concentrate on her writing she quit working as an airline clerk. In 1957 she submitted the manuscript of her book to the J. B. Lippincott Company. She was told that her novel consisted of a series of short stories strung together. She was urged to rewrite it. For the next two and a half-year she reworked the manuscript with the help of her editor, Tay Hohoff, and in 1960 To Kill A Mockingbird was published. Harper Lee only wr

In the book "To Kill A Mockingbird", prejudice is an overall issue. Prejudice runs wild in Maycomb County. The town has prejudice against blacks. This is seen in the case against Tom Robinson. Robinson is wrongly accused, and loses his life due to racism in the community. Even though it is obvious, to every person in the jury, that Robinson could not have committed the crime, and that he is an upright and religious churchgoing man, he is still accused of rape and jailed. It is obvious that he is innocent through evidence presented by Atticus, Bob Ewell is left-handed, Tom's left hand is useless, etc. But since the jury "cannot" find a black man innocent over a white family they find him guilty.

Prejudice is every where. From hotels across the world, to little houses in Maycomb, Alabama, it is there. Wherever you turn, you better watch your back because it is going to be standing right there, and you just have to fight it off.

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