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Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, [8] the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (née Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee. [9] Her parents chose her middle name, Harper, to honor pediatrician Dr. William W. Harper, of Selma, who had saved the life of her sister Louise. [10]
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).
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 ...
Atticus Finch is a fictional character and the protagonist of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird.A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel Go Set a Watchman, written in the mid-1950s but not published until 2015.
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,…
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in middle and high schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature , winning the Pulitzer Prize . [ 1 ]