The To Kill a Mockingbird theatre tour finishes its triumphant run with a West End homecoming. Aaron Sorkin’s Tony ...

What if John-Boy Walton had become a lawyer rather than a writer? Chances are the fictional character from the 1970s TV show “The Waltons” would have turned out a lot like Atticus Finch, the fictional ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a bitter irony in the fact that the final year in the life of legendary novelist Harper Lee, who died last week at 89, was marked by what many saw as her hero's inglorious downfall. Lee's ...

Atticus Finch lives by a code: let your conscience be your guide Atticus can help teach parents to raise virtuous, courageous, resilient, fair and empowered children The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” ...

While there are many noble characters in the pantheon of Southern fiction, few have the iconic standing of Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch. Since the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird more than 50 years ...

I identified with Atticus Finch immediately upon first reading Lee's book on its publication in 1960. For it was in that year that I had to face up, as a 28-year-old lawyer, to a dreadful tragedy. My ...