A once-great hero has been tainted for many: Atticus Finch is a racist. But the summary rejection of a book based on how it develops a character says more about the rejector than it does Atticus or ...

In the 1962 movie version of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Gregory Peck played Atticus Finch, a heroic lawyer who takes a stand for justice. In "Go Set a Watchman," Atticus Finch has taken a turn toward ...

Publicity still of Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, starring in the 1962 Universal Pictures film, "To Kill a Mockingbird." The character Atticus Finch, long revered by many as a paragon of justice, has ...

I was nine when I fell in love with Jean Louise Finch — Scout to her friends. It was her decency I cherished more than anything else, more than how she loved to fight and climb trees, more than the ...

A new side of the beloved character was revealed in "Watchman." Gregory Peck, as Atticus Finch, stands in a courtroom in a scene from "To Kill A Mockingbird" in 1962. — -- The lead character in ...

To Kill a Mockingbird, a perpetual best-seller since its publication in 1960, knows how to generate competing storylines. Its author, Harper Lee, after all, never followed up with a second novel, and ...

In the years after Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, the beloved, moral patriarch Atticus Finch became a cultural icon. Some people were inspired to become lawyers because of Atticus ...

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. A spoonful of the heroic Atticus Finch helped white people deal with our racism for over fifty years. In 1960, most white people couldn’t face the ...

So now we know: Atticus Finch, the fictional lawyer in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” meets old age as a segregationist enraged at the civil rights movement, one who attends a Klan meeting and ...

Well, the cat is out of the bag. Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" has revealed that Atticus Finch may not be the social justice warrior he was in "To Kill a Mockingbird," but that may not be cause for ...

Atticus Finch. The man who has been dubbed one of the “all-time coolest heroes in pop culture” and the “Best. Dad. Ever” and “the greatest hero of American film,” the man whose wisdom concerns ...