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- Given Name: Nelle Harper Lee
- Born: April 28, 1926
- Place of Birth: Monroeville, Alabama
- Father: Amasa Coleman Lee
- Mother: Frances Cunningham Finch Lee
- Siblings: 3
- Lifelong friend of Truman Capote
- 1962: Film version of To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee is an American novelist and essayist. Her 1960 Pulitzer Prize—winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is her only major work to date. The book is a literary classic, inspired a 1962 Academy Award-winning film adaptation starring Gregory Peck, and is required reading for high-school students.
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Education and Early Work
Lee attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama from 1944 - 1945 before studying law at the University of Alabama. She also studied for a summer at Oxford University before returning to the United States to work as an airline reservations clerk for Eastern Air Lines.To Kill A Mockingbird
Lee wrote several short stories and acquired an agent in 1956. Late that year, two friends gave her the gift of one year's wages and her pledge that she would spend that year writing. The result was To Kill a Mockingbird.The book was published in 1960 and was an immediate critical and commercial success. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was voted the best novel of the 20th century by Library Journal. To date, To Kill a Mockingbird has sold thirty million copies.
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Harper Lee Questions
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How well do you like the musician Grant Lee Phillilps? 1 AnswerI had never heard of them before and after listening to some of their stuff I'm still not sure what I think. Their songs are not too bad but the production on ... read more
Open Thread: Jaycee Lee Dugard 2 AnswersGod... after reading that article I wanted to cry. She was missing for 18 years! But I still wonder what happened to her all those years. :( read more
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Personal Timeline
- April 28, 1926: Born
- 1957: Submits manuscript for To Kill A Mockingbird
- 1961: Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel
- 1962: Film version of To Kill A Mockingbird released on Christmas Day
- 1963: Accompanies childhood friend Truman Capote's to Kansas to help research In Cold Blood
- 2006: Writes a letter to Oprah that was published in Oprah's O Magazine
- 2006: Accepted honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame
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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee - A Homework Online Study... http://tinyurl.com/ykn6rvg
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[OLD ENOUGH] RICKIE LEE JONES FT.BEN HARPER (youtube )
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@skipmalny Joe (fun) or Lee (smart) or Aaron (hypnotist) or Zachary (geek) or Raul (bad guy!) or Alex Harper (human). All but Alex are weres
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee
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RT @adambmetal: Decided today that Lee's SG will become Harper's when she grows up.Awe what a beautiful idea! So she's gonna be a rock chic!
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