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Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). [1]
Born in 1926, Harper Lee grew up in the Southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, where she became a close friend of soon-to-be-famous writer Truman Capote.She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944–45), and then studied law at the University of Alabama (1945–49).
Author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that "Harper Lee was a good writer. She wrote a lovable, greatly beloved book. But this earlier one, for all its faults and omissions, asks some of the hard questions To Kill a Mockingbird evades." [45] The year it was released, the book won the Goodreads Choice Award in Fiction. [46]
Harper Lee, the author of the seminal "To Kill a Mockingbird," was born and raised in Monroeville, the inspiration for her classic novel's fictional town of Maycomb.
Few books have been as widely read as <i>To Kill a Mockingbird,</i> the 1960 novel written by Harper Lee that went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, and ...
Enter Scout Finch, disheveled, scrappy and precocious, she leapt off the page and into my heart, compliments of Nelle Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. Instantly successful,…
Pages in category "Novels by Harper Lee" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Go Set a Watchman; T.
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