• Finch was the maiden name of author Harper Lee's mother.• Rock Hudson was the studio's first choice for the role of Atticus Finch. James Stewart was also offered the part, but he thought the script ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Birmingham native Mary Badham returns home on Thursday to reminisce about her role as the rambunctious Scout Finch in the 1962 film classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." Badham, who ...

PADUCAH - Harper Lee's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, was brought to the screen in an Academy Award-winning adaptation ...

MARION — It's taken 55 years, but readers will soon be treated to another Harper Lee novel. In a surprise announcement Tuesday, HarperCollins Publishers said it will release "Go Set a Watchman" on ...

Pass the cornbread and turnip greens, please. And save me a slice of that Lane cake. Clif and Maureen Holt of Birmingham's Little Savannah Restaurant and Bar will cook up a downhome Southern feast as ...

At a time when Jim Crow laws still gripped the U.S. southern states and the civil rights movement was beginning to hit its stride, Harper Lee was quietly developing two books that told the tightly ...

A classic piece of Southern literature makes the leap from the page to the stage Tuesday when Broadway in New Orleans at the Saenger Theatre presents "To Kill a Mockingbird," with Richard Thomas in ...