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Harper Lee
American writer
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Nelle Harper Lee
- Born:
- April 28, 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.
- Died:
- February 19, 2016, Monroeville (aged 89)
- Awards And Honors:
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007)
- Pulitzer Prize (1961)
- Notable Works:
- “Go Set a Watchman”
- “To Kill a Mockingbird”
- On the Web:
- BBC News - Harper Lee planned more novels, letter reveals (Dec. 06, 2024)
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Why is Harper Lee significant?
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Where did Harper Lee go to school?
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Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, Monroeville) was an American writer nationally acclaimed for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Harper Lee’s father was Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer who by all accounts resembled the hero of her novel in his sound citizenship and warmheartedness. The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird is based in part on his unsuccessful youthful defense of two African American men convicted of murder. Lee studied law at the University of Alabama (spending a summer as an exchange student at the University of Oxford), but she left for ...(100 of 547 words)