Today I Found Out

The Year's Free Wages that lead to To Kill A Mockingbird (2016x109)

Data de estreia: Jun 01, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Why a Bakers Dozen is 13 Instead of 12 https://youtu.be/UPDV0POS5d0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k Why Vampires Can't Exist... and 9 Other Amazing Facts https://youtu.be/cDlat4Pdd4U?list=PLR0XuDegDqP1IHZBUZvKkPwkTr6Gr0OBO In this video: The book, which was Lee’s first and only published novel until recently, was heralded as an “instant classic” when it was published in 1960, and it is a staple in high school classrooms today. But it might not exist at all if it hadn’t been for a kind benefactor who helped to support Harper Lee while she wrote the story. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/03/years-free-wages-led-harper-lee-writing-kill-mockingbird/ Sources: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5244492 http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021 http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/07/harper_lee_fights_mockingbird.html http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/imagine-making-9000-day-something-50-years-ago-thats-harper-lee/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee