On the day Go Set a Watchman is released, a baby-name website questions how long "Atticus" will stay No. 1 Sandra Sobieraj Westfall is a former national political correspondent, digital writer and ...

In the years after Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, the beloved, moral patriarch Atticus Finch became a cultural icon. Some people were inspired to become lawyers because of Atticus ...

During the waning days of apartheid, I had dinner with a group of liberal South Africans. And they were liberals in relative terms: Cape Town residents of Anglo descent, they had lived and done ...

Aug. 13—Rising sophomore Atticus Abraham, 14, is a class-act juggler and magician. Atticus found love and peace with juggling and magic. It was therapeutic for him to practice after losing his ...

Atticus didn’t defend Tom Robinson because he was some great advocate for racial justice, but because it was his duty to the law and a judge forced him to. Atticus believed in the law first, not in ...

Jeff Daniels has been cast as Atticus Finch in a new Broadway version of "To Kill a Mockingbird." The Georgia-born actor, 63, was chosen by Aaron Sorkin, who's adapting Harper Lee's novel for a ...