Atticus Finch Atticus Finch Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1960, "To Kill a Mockingbird". A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel "Go Set a Watchman", written in the mid 1950s but not published until 2015. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy "Jem" Finch and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa Coleman Lee, an Alabama lawyer, who, like Atticus, represented black defendants in a highly publicized criminal trial. "Book Magazine"s list of "The
The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time The following are the "Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" according to the worldwide opinion polls conducted by "Sight & Sound" and published in the journal's September 2012 issue. They published the critics' list, based on 846 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors, and the directors' list, based on 358 directors and filmmakers. "Sight & Sound", published by the British Film Institute, has conducted a poll of the greatest films every 10 years since 1952. In the 2012 critics' poll, "Vertigo" ranked first, replacing "Citizen Kane", which held the