Harper Lee
Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, United States on April 28th, 1926 and is the Novelist. At the age of 89, Harper Lee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Nelle Harper Lee (February 28, 1926-1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist best known for her 1960 book To Kill a Mockingbird.
It received the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and has since been a modern American literature staple.
Lee only wrote two books, but she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature.
She has also earned several honorary degrees, but she has refused to speak on those occasions.
Truman Capote, her close friend, helped with the writing of her book In Cold Blood (1966).
The character of To Kill a Mockingbird, created by Capote, was based on Lee's experiences of her family and friends, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936 when she was 10.
The novel explores the adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of two children.
It was inspired by racial stereotypes in Monroeville, Alabama, where she grew up.
She wrote Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s and released it in July 2015 as a sequel to Mockingbird, but it was later revealed to be only her first draft of Mockingbird.
Early life
Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926, as the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (née Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee. Harper's middle name was chosen to honor pediatrician Dr. William W. Harper of Selma, who had saved her sister Louise's life. Nelle, her grandmother's name, spelled backwards, and the word she used, but Harper Lee was primarily her pen name. Lee's mother was a homemaker; her father was a former newspaper editor, businessman, and litigator who served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1926 to 1938. She was connected to Confederate General Robert E. Lee and a member of the influential Lee family through her father. He once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper before A.C. Lee became a national prosecutor. Both clients, a father and son, were hanged.
Alice Finch Lee (1911–2014), Louise Lee Conner (1916–2009), and Edwin Lee (1920–1951) were Lee's three siblings. Although Nelle kept in touch with her older sisters throughout their lives, only her brother was old enough to play with, although she bonded with Truman Capote (1924–1984), who visited family in Monroeville during the summers from 1928 to 1934.
Lee developed an interest in English literature while attending Monroe County High School, partly because of her mentor Gladys Watson, who became her mentor. Nelle attended Montgomery's then all-female Huntingdon College for a year, then moved to Tuscaloosa, where she studied law for several years. In addition, Nelle wrote for the university newspaper (The Crimson White) and a humor magazine (Rammer Jammer), but she stopped one semester short of finishing the credit hours for a degree. Lee attended "European Civilization in the Twentieth Century" at Oxford University in England, financed by her father, who hoped—in vain—that the experience would make her more interested in her legal studies in Tuscaloosa.