“Mockingbird” is based on Lee’s upbringing in Monroeville, Ala., most notably around the time she was 10. The book won Lee the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became an instant classic. You can’t make a list of Alabama authors without mentioning Harper Lee and “To Kill A Mockingbird,” the novel that most people associate with the State of Alabama.
(AP Photo/Rob Carr, File) “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee The writer’s bitter assessment of Monroeville comes in a three-page letter that’s being sold with other items by Bonham’s auctions. Lee railed against her Alabama hometown for trying to exploit her success in a letter that helps explain later legal battles involving commercialization of her novel. 20, 2007, file photo, “To Kill A Mockingbird” author Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor, at the state Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. In 2017, it was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and received the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, an American Book Award, and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature.įILE – In this Aug. It was selected as one of 2016’s “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation, won the John Leonard Award for best first book from the National Book Critics Circle. The 2016 novel won Gyasi numerous awards. The novel starts with Maame’s daughters separated by circumstance before trickling down into their children and the generations that follow. Gyasi’s debut novel, “Homegoing,” is a historical fiction chronicling the descendants of an Asante woman named Maame.
While leading the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson was able to discredit the prosecution’s case against McMillan, who was exonerated and released from jail in 1993.Īccording to a profile by The New Yorker, Stevenson has saved 125 men from the death penalty. Stevenson, a Harvard-educated lawyer and social justice activist, wrote the story based on his experiences with Walter McMillan, an Alabama inmate who was convicted of murder and spent months on death row. The memoir, also titled “Just Mercy,” was written by Delaware native turned Montgomery resident Bryan Stevenson. The 2019 film “Just Mercy” became a box office hit and garnered a Screen Actors Guild nomination for star Jamie Foxx, but the book it was based on was already a huge hit before the story hit cinemas.
16, 2019 photo shows civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson posing for a portrait in New York to promote the film “Just Mercy.” (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP) “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson
Here are the some of the most famous novels written by Alabama authors: This Dec. Did you know these hit movies were made in Alabama?
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