Idealistic Atticus Finch depicted as racist in new Harper Lee novel
July 12, 2015 at 12:58 PM EDT
NEW YORK, July 12 (Reuters) - Harper Lee's just and gentle lawyer Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" is depicted as a bigot and racist in the author's upcoming new novel, which is being published this week 55 years after her portrait of racial injustice in the American South.
