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To Kill A Mockingbird

A Research Project

Current Productions

Fun Facts About The Play

  • The play was originally performed in Harper Lee's home town, Monroeville.
  • Debuted in 1990
  • It's a town tradition to perform it
  • The citizens of the town will go around to the land marks and perform the scenes.
  • The plays abstract details have been enhanced through modern technology such as lighting and sound.

Christopher Sergel

  • He wrote many play adaptations
  • Adaptations include: To Kill a Mockingbird, Cheaper By the Dozen, The Mouse That Roared, Up the Down Staircase, Fame, Black Elk Speaks
  • His adaptation of Winesburg, Ohio was seen on seen on Broadway

Harper Lee

  • Transfered TKAM to a play
  • Met Harper Lee in NYC to discuss the book to play adaptation.
  • His father was an English teacher and treasured that book
  • Christopher Sergel, as well, held the book very dear to him as well.
  • He went on many adventures in the world
  • He lived in the African brush for a year
  • He lived in the South Pacific for two years
  • He was a Lieutenant Commander during WWII
  • He taught celestial navigation during the war
  • His favorite line of work was with Dramatic Publishing
  • the original author of "To Kill A Mocking Bird"
  • Born April 28, 1926 in Alabama
  • TKAM is based on the racism she experienced as a young child, in Monroeville, AL.
  • Legal Name: Nelle Harper Lee
  • Moved to New York in 1949
  • Began writing fiction stories while being an airline reservation agent
  • She found her own writing agent in 1956
  • Took 2 &1/2 years of rewriting to finally have finish TKAM
  • Went by Harper to avoid confusion with the pronunciation of her first name "Nelle"
  • Book was published July 11, 1960
  • Instant best seller
  • Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961
  • 1962- TKAM became a movie
  • Lee thought it was one of the best book-to-movie transitions ever
  • 1999- Won Best Novel of the Century
  • She filled hardly any interview requests about the book
  • Suffered a stroke leaving her blind and deaf
  • "To Kill A Mockingbird" was the only book Lee released for half a century
  • She plans to publish "To Set a Watchman on July 14, 2015
  • Harper Lee became her nom de plume
  • Youngest of 5 children
  • self proclaimed tomboy in her childhood
  • Mother- homemaker
  • Father- worked for the newspaper; then went on to practice law
  • big case he worked: defended two black men accused of murdering a white shopkeeper. Both were executed
  • Grew an interest in literature in high school
  • Graduated High School 1944
  • First attended the all female Huntingdon University
  • Transferred to the University of Alabama after a year
  • She studied law and wrote for the newspaper but never finished a degree
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