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Harper Lee
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Harper Lee
"To Kill a Mocking Bird"
Author of "To Kill a Mocking Bird"
- Her first and only novel
- First published on July 11, 1960
- Still sells almost one million copies a year
Family
Awards
- Amasa Coleman Lee, father, had the nickname of AC and was a lawyer.
- Also was a member of the Alabama State Legislature
- Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961
Citation Page
- Mother, Francis Finch, was mentally ill.
- 8 academy awards
- Used to be a talented pianist
Harper Lee." 2012. FamousAuthors.org 25 January
http://www.famousauthors.org/harper-lee
- Had three siblings
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Alice, Louise and Edwin
"American Masters (2012 Season) – "Harper Lee: Hey, Boo"."
www.thirteen.org. New York Public Media, 02 Apr 2012. Web. 24 Jan 2013. <http://www.thirteen.org/13pressroom/press-release/american-masters-2012-season-harper-lee-hey-boo/harper-lee-bio/>.
"Harper Lee Biography." www.harperlee.com. N.p.. Web. 18 Jan
2013. <http://www.harperlee.com/bio.htm>.
"To Kill a Mockingbird Reader's Guide - About the Author."
www.neabigread.org. N.p.. Web. 18 Jan 2013. <http://www.neabigread.org/books/mockingbird/mockingbird04.php>.
Childhood
- Nelle Harper Lee
- Born April 28, 1926
- Lived in Monroeville, Alabama
Jobs
- Daughter of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch
- Reservation clerk for Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways
- Youngest of four children
- Worked for the University of Alabama's campus newspaper
- Truman Capote is best friend (wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
Where is she now?
Steps toward her book
- Editor-in-chief of the "Rammer Jammer", a local magazine on campus
- She is 86 years old
- While working for Eastern Air Lines and British Airways wrote short stories and essays
- Agent told her to produce a novel
- She quit her job
- Lives a quiet life
- Her friends, Michael and Joy Brown, supported her financially until she finished the manuscript
- Doesn't do interviews