Amasa
Americannoun
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Amasa spent most of his early years in Florida, but a bookkeeping job took him to Finchburg, Alabama, where he met Harper Lee’s mother, Frances Cunningham Finch.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
Mills said that while researching the book, she talked to people who remembered the sisters’ father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer, playing golf in a three-piece suit.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2016
It was widely understood that Ms. Lee modeled Atticus on her father, Amasa Coleman “A.C.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2016
The offices of Barnett, Bugg, Lee & Carter, where Harper Lee’s father, Amasa Coleman Lee, and sister Alice Finch Lee both practiced, is a block away.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2015
"It's father's old workshop; there's nothing there," Amasa said.
From Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 by Various
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