I was always a fan of "To Kill A Mockingbird" so I am extremely chuffed to find that I am related to its author, who is apparently my 13th cousin, once removed, on my mother's maternal side. A forebear of my Hunts, way back when. Our ancestries merge in the 1500s with Walter Roberts and Frances Maynard. Their daughters, Ann (on my side) and Grysell (on Harper Lee's).
It's interesting to find that she based Atticus Finch on her father, and the idea for "To Kill A Mockingbird" came from a real life case that her father defended. Sadly, the 2 men in real life, a father and son accused of murdering a white storekeeper, were hanged.
It would have been nice to have known all of this when she was alive, and maybe to have been able to write to her and get to know her. She died in 2016 though, in Monroeville, Alabama, the same town she was born, and grew up, in.
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