Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1926, the daughter of a lawyer who had defended in 1919 two Black men, a father and his son, accused of murder and hanged. She abandoned her law studies for New York, where she worked in airline reservations. At Christmas 1956, friends gave her a year's salary so that she could write full time. She then published no further book until 2015, only a few articles, stopped giving interviews in 1964, and returned to live in her home town, where she died in 2016.

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• NovelTo Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee · 1960Literature