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as  the  financial  manager  of  a  law  firm,  Award-winning  performance  by  Gregory
   representing  the  firm's  interests  in  the  Peck  in  the  1962  film  adaptation,  as  the

   Manistee & Repton Railway, located in the  greatest hero of all American cinema. In the
   nearby logging community of Manistee. In  2018 Broadway stage play adapted by Aaron

   1915, he passed the Alabama bar exam and  Sorkin, Finch is portrayed by Jeff Daniels.
   began  to  practice  law,  mainly  in  Monroe
                                                             Contrast
   County. Before Lee became a title lawyer,
                                                                   Amasa Coleman Lee and Atticus Finch
   he once defended two black men accused of
                                                             are  similar  because they  are both  lawyers
   murdering  a  white  storekeeper.  Both
                                                             who  defended  an  african  american  man.
   clients,  a  father  and  son,  were  hanged
                                                             They  were  both  lawyers  in  Southern
   From 1927 to 1939, he served as a member
                                                             Alabama.  The  only  difference  is  since
   of  the  Alabama  House  of  Representatives
                                                             Atticus Finch is a fictional character, so the
   Lee  also  worked  as  the  editor  and
                                                             place  where  he  lived  was  also  a  fictional
   proprietor  of  the  Monroe  Journal  from
 The Real Story Behind                                       place.(sexton) Also Lee was a great father to
 The Character   Atticus Finch the   1929  to  1947.  He  died  in  Monroeville,   Harper Lee just like Atticus was to Scout.

   Alabama.

 fictional character from         Atticus Finch is a fictional character in   They both did a lot of the parenting while
 That Made  a   To Kill a Mockingbird.  Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel  "You never really   working a lot.


   of  1960,  To  Kill  a  Mockingbird.  A                 understand a person                    Atticus  Finch
 Movement  By Lyndsay Bennett  This is Amasa Coleman  Lee   preliminary  version  of  the  character  also  until you consider   was shown as
 and Harper Lee
   appears in the novel Go Set a Watchman,
       Harper Lee?s correspondence from the   written in the mid 1950s but not published  things from his point of   Amasa
 mid-1950s touches upon everything from   until 2015. Atticus is a lawyer and resident  view....Until you climb   Coleman  Lee
 politics and writing to religion and dating.                                                     thanks  to  his
 Her letters also describe her caring for her   of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama,   daughter Harper Lee who wrote To Kill a

 ailing  father,  Amasa  Coleman  Lee,  the   and the father of Jeremy "Jem" Finch and   Mockingbird in a way that showed him as a
 lawyer and newspaper  man who was the   Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. ?Lee based the
 basis  for  one  of  literature?s  most  famous   character on her own father,  an Alabama   hero. He was seen as a great lawyer and a
 characters, Atticus Finch.  Harper Lee used   lawyer, who, like Atticus, represented black   even   better   father.
 Amasa Coleman Lee in her book because of   defendants in a highly publicized criminal
 the how he effected her life.
 teacher  and  as  a  bookkeeper  at  the  Flat   trial.?(2)  Book  Magazine's  list  of  The  100
 Who  are  Amasa  Coleman  Lee  and   Creek Mill in Finchburg, Alabama, where   Best  Characters  in  Fiction  Since  1900

 Atticus Finc  he  met  and,  on  June  22,  1910,  married   names  Finch  as  the  seventh  best  fictional

       Lee was born in Georgiana, Alabama.   Frances  Finch,  the  daughter  of  the   character  of  20th-century  literature.  In

 He  lived  on  a  farm  in  or  near  Chipley,   postmaster.  In  1912  the  Lees  moved  to   2003  the  American  Film  Institute  voted
 Florida,  and  he  worked  variously  as  a   Monroeville, Alabama. There Lee worked   Atticus Finch, as portrayed in an Academy
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