Harper Lee is an avid reader as a child. She is 6 years old when the Scottsboro trials are widely covered in national, state and local newspapers. She grew up in the 1930s in a rural southern Alabama town. Her father, Atticus Finch, is an attorney who served in the state legislature in Alabama. More @Wikipedia
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