By Winstead on February 19, 2016
Originally published By Lindsay Stafford Mader for the Texas Bar Blog
Readers and lawyers around the country are feeling the loss of author Harper Lee, who died in her sleep this morning at the age of 89. Harper’s novel To Kill a Mockingbirdwas awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Dallas attorney Talmage Boston—who has extensively presented and written on Lee, Mockingbird, and Lee’s recently released Go Set a Watchman—told the Texas Bar Journal that Lee gave lawyers the greatest possible gift by portraying her small-town attorney father, Amasa Lee, as the character Atticus Finch, thereby creating a role model who embodied the nobility of the legal profession. (Click here to continue) Other related articles written by Talmage Boston: