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Harper Lee
Novelist, Author
1926 –
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Who is Harper Lee?
Nelle Harper Lee is an American author known for her 1961 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that the author observed as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite being Lee's only published book, it led to her being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Lee has received numerous honorary degrees but has always declined to make a speech.
Other significant contributions include assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood.
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- Born
- Apr 28, 1926
Monroeville - Also known as
- Nelle Harper Lee
- Nelle Harper E. Lee
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Alabama
- Huntingdon College
- University of Oxford
- Monroe County High School
( - 1944) - University of Alabama School of Law
- Lived in
- Monroeville
- Alabama
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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