{"id":192171,"date":"2016-02-22T08:55:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T08:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=192171"},"modified":"2016-02-22T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T08:55:29","slug":"harper-lee-to-kill-a-mockingbird-author-buried-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/harper-lee-to-kill-a-mockingbird-author-buried-in-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird author buried in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has been buried in a private funeral in her hometown in the US state of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Close family and friends of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, who died on Friday aged 89, gathered for a church service in Monroeville.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rAe7CGWlVFQfR93oai7AJop1zCADwnW7&#8243;]To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial intolerance in the Deep South, sold more than 40m copies worldwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee released the sequel, Go Set a Watchman, in 2015 &#8211; 55 years later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement from her family confirmed the acclaimed author had died in her sleep on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"media-player-wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The funeral service was held at First United Methodist Church in Monroeville on Saturday, with history professor Wayne Flynt, a long-time friend, delivering the eulogy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_191645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191645\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191645\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Harper-1.jpg\" alt=\"Harper Lee made a rare public appearance in 2007 to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George Bush.\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harper Lee made a rare public appearance in 2007 to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George Bush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was then laid to rest at her family burial plot, alongside her father and sister, Alice Lee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The author used Monroeville as a model for the imaginary town of Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book remains a towering presence in American literature, telling the tale of a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-body__crosshead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">To Kill a Mockingbird &#8211; at a glance<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the small fictional town of Maycomb in the depression-ravaged American South, a black man named Tom Robinson is falsely accused of raping a white woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-192185\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/kill.jpg\" alt=\"to kill a mocking bird\" width=\"601\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lawyer named Atticus Finch defends Robinson in court. The frenzy stirred up by the case and her father&#8217;s quest for justice are seen through the eyes of Finch&#8217;s six-year-old daughter Scout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book explores issues of race, class and the loss of innocence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view\u2026 until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.&#8221; &#8211; Atticus Finch to Scout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.&#8221; &#8211; Scout Finch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1962, it was made into a film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. 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