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NEWS ABOUT: Harper Lee

Harper Lee stories: 4 news summaries

(Newser) - Though the National Endowment for the Arts is encouraging communities to get together and devour the same book, literature director David Kipen has gone a bit further with tiny Kelleys Island, Ohio, the Sandusky Register reports. If the island’s 128 inhabitants don’t all read To Kill a Mockingbird,... More »

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Ohio • island • Harper Lee • To Kill A Mockingbird • National Endowment for the Arts • NEA • David Kipen • Sandusky • The Big Read

 Don't Get Comfy,
 Harry Potter 

Dr. Seuss, EB White win popularity contest over Rowling

May 5, 08 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Both are fantasists who've sold zillions of books, but in a recent poll of American children, the classic wins out: Dr. Seuss' works are more popular than JK Rowling's. Three million-plus kids weighed in on an educational software company's website, and Rowling's Harry Potter books trail works by EB White,... More »

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Harry Potter • Dr. Seuss • JK Rowling • children • reading • book • Harper Lee • Laura Numeroff • EB White • Judy Blume • Katherine Paterson

50 Favorite
Cult Books 

From Hunter to Ayn, the Telegraph lists books you can 'wear like a leather jacket'

Apr 27, 08 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s hard to define the "cult" book, but the Telegraph compiled 50 of the top contenders that “rewire your head.”
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968)
  • Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
  • The
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literature • list • Hunter S. Thompson • Jack Kerouac • On the Road • book • Harper Lee • To Kill A Mockingbird • The Catcher in the Rye • JD Salinger • Catch-22 • Joseph Heller • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas • Tom Wolfe • Ayn Rand • Siddhartha

Harper Lee Awarded Medal of Freedom

Civil rights pioneer Hooks also receives highest civilian honor

Nov 6, 07 4:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Author Harper Lee and NAACP pioneer Benjamin Hooks yesterday received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, for their work for racial equality. Lee, 81, wrote the 1960 Pulitzer-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird, which challenged racism and was made into a powerful movie featuring Gregory Peck. The... More »

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Tennessee • civil rights • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf • Presidential Medal of Freedom • Harper Lee • Benjamin Hooks • To Kill A Mockingbird • NAACP • civil rights movement

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