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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 ]
Capote travels to Kansas, inviting childhood friend Nelle Harper Lee to come along. He intends to interview those involved with the Clutter family, with Lee as his go-between and facilitator. Alvin Dewey, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's lead detective on the case, brushes him off. Still, Dewey's wife Marie is a fan of Capote's writing and ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird author Nelle Harper Lee died Friday at age 89 in her Monroeville, Alabama home, multiple sources confirmed Friday. The author had returned to her ...
Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, the youngest of four children of A.C. and Frances Finch Lee and a descendant of Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Like Scout, Lee grew up a ...
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,…
Nelle A. Coley (1909–1999), a noted educator from Greensboro, NC; Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871–1944), American librettist, poet, and teacher; Nelle Isabel Law (1914–1990), generally known as Nel Law, Australian artist, poet and diarist; Nelle Harper Lee (1926–2016), or Harper Lee, American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird
The papers of Annie Laurie Williams and Maurice Crain, who were Harper Lee's literary agents in the 1950s, are held at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. They show that Go Set a Watchman was an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird , and underwent significant changes in story and characters during the revision process.
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 ...