Atticus Finch is the father of Jem and Jean Louise (Scout) and a lawyer. He takes the case of Tom Robinson, an African-American man wrongly accused of rape, to defend him in court. “You never ...

Take a look at some of To Kill a Mockingbird's most memorable quotes that still inspire us to take action against the many layers of intolerance in our world today. By Kate Friedman February 19, 2016 ...

Happy Father’s Day! To help you celebrate, here are five English literary quotes and sayings about that special family member ...

We were so sad and sorry to hear that Harper Lee passed away today, aged 89. To celebrate her most famous novel and timeless classic, To Kill A Mockingbird, we have put together our favourite lines ...

In the moment, it occurred to some viewers that Finch also provided less-palatable quotes on diversity ... The vision of Atticus Finch that Obama referenced was the upstanding one that Americans ...

While there are many noble characters in the pantheon of Southern fiction, few have the iconic standing of Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch. Since the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird more than 50 ...

Then came the revelation in “Watchman”: Lee’s prequel/sequel to her tour de force classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” we learn that Atticus Finch is a racist. One of the most beloved ...

Harper Lee's unexpected new novel offers an unexpected and startling take on an American literary saint, Atticus Finch. "Go Set a Watchman" is set in the 1950s, 20 years after Lee's celebrated "To ...

Set in a dusty and inward-looking Alabama town during the Depression, the film tells the story of a widowed lawyer and father of two named Atticus Finch who’s assigned to defend a black man ...

Small-town Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of the most recognizable characters in American literature. In the recent Broadway update of the ...

It did so, however, in a matter quite conventional: Atticus Finch was the white savior, a good white liberal whose ethics and values compelled him to defend a black man who had been falsely ...