re: To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee said that?

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Of course not - it's not only about that. I mean, it is semi-autobiographical - assuming Harper even wrote the thing (and even if Capote actually wrote it, it was Harper's story, regardless) - Scout is based heavily on her, Dill on Truman Capote and Atticus on Harper Lee's father.

The best stories come from a place of truth.

Even if not explicit, civil rights and the treatment of blacks under the law in the South in the pre-war era was a constant theme in the book.