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My Olivetti will be buried with me: Remembering Harper Lee

My Olivetti will be buried with me: Remembering Harper Lee

Elizabeth Elkin • February 22, 2016

Nelle Harper Lee sits at the podium in front of a crowd of 200 people. The photographer kneels down and points his camera, prepared to take a picture.Lee looks at him and stops talking to the audience....

The names in the schoolhouse door: UA students question building names

The names in the schoolhouse door: UA students question building names

Elayne Smith • February 22, 2016

In the words of author Harper Lee, “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”After 105 years, University of Alabama students are banding...

Petitioners call for the University to rename Morgan Hall after Harper Lee

Petitioners call for the University to rename Morgan Hall after Harper Lee

Elizabeth Elkin • February 19, 2016

A petition was created on Feb. 19 to rename Morgan Hall, The University of Alabama's Department of English building, to Lee Hall after Harper Lee, who was confirmed dead at age 89 earlier in the day.Morgan...

Lee's themes transcend criticism

Lee's themes transcend criticism

Christian Elliott • July 22, 2015

On July 14, Harper Lee launched her second novel “Go Set a Watchman,” a sequel to her original Pulitzer Prize winner “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Within its first week on the bookshelves, it sold more...

Harper Lee releases new novel

Laura Testino • July 15, 2015

"Go Set a Watchman," Harper Lee's sequel to her award-winning classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," was released last Tuesday, July 14. The book, published 55 years after its creation in 1960, focuses on...

Harper Lee to publish 2nd book

Francie Johnson • February 4, 2015

Author Harper Lee’s name is instantly recognizable due to her one iconic novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In the 50-plus years since the book’s 1960 publication, Lee has never published another...

Harper Lee to release 2nd book

Francie Johnson • February 3, 2015

Author Harper Lee's name is instantly recognizable due to her one iconic novel: "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the 50-plus years since the book's 1960 publication, Lee has never had another novel published...

Writers Hall of Fame to induct Rick Bragg

Writers Hall of Fame to induct Rick Bragg

Alessandra Delrose • January 19, 2015

The Alabama Writers Hall of Fame will honor University of Alabama professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg, along with 11 other local writers, into its first class of inductees on June 8.Last...

Why race still matters

Anthony Berry • September 3, 2014

One of my favorite books during my time in high school was, and still to this day is, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Alabama’s very own Harper Lee. In it, a white attorney named Atticus Finch defends...

Students honor ‘Mockingbird’

Stephen N. Dethrage • January 30, 2012

One of the Honors College's traditions celebrated its eleventh year Friday, when forty-five high school students traveled to Tuscaloosa for a luncheon honoring the winners of the "To Kill a Mockingbird"...

Campus celebrates Harper Lee

Katherine Martin • September 19, 2010

The Honors College and School of Law will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” Tuesday with Attorney General Eric Holder as the keynote speaker, according to David...