A Conversation with Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch: The Biography

Join Greensboro Bound and The Steven Tanger Center for Performing Arts in a pre-performance book talk with JOSEPH CRESPINO (Atticus Finch: The Biography—Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon).

Who was the real Atticus Finch? Prize-winning historian Joseph Crespino reveals the man behind the legend. In Atticus Finch, historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee’s father provided the central inspiration for each of her books.

This conversation will take place prior to the 7:30PM showing of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Tanger Center. PURCHASE DISCOUNTED TICKETS.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JOSEPH CRESPINO is the Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University. He is an expert in the political and cultural history of the twentieth century United States, and of the history of the American South since Reconstruction.

His research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Academy of Education.

In 2014, he served as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Tubingen, and he has been named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.

Crespino has published three books, has co-edited a collection of essays, and has written for academic journals as well as for popular forums such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, and the Wall Street Journal. His most recent book; Atticus Finch: The Biography—Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon; was published in 2018 by Basic Books. Among his current book projects, Crespino is writing the chapters covering United States history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries for the textbook America: A Narrative History, co-written with David Emory Shi, Daina Ramey Berry, and Amy Murrell Taylor, published by W.W. Norton.