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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird UK tour, starring Richard Coyle as Atticus Finch, comes to The Lowry, Salford ...

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 ...

"Atticus" tops Nameberry's count of Most Popular Baby Names for the first half of 2015, on the publication day of the new Harper Lee novel casting the inspirational namesake Atticus Finch as a racist.

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 ...

NEW YORK — Some fans of the 1960 literary classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" are rethinking their entire lives now that it's been revealed that author Harper Lee's long-awaited sequel, "Go Set a Watchman ...