Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A
Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89.
The news was confirmed by the mayor’s office
in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
The novelist Nelle Harper Lee was born on 28
April 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She was the youngest of four children of
lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She studied at the
University of Alabama and worked in New York.
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There she began work on 'To Kill a Mockingbird',
in the mid 1950s. It was completed in 1957 and published in 1960 just before
the black civil rights movement in America really took.
The novel which was a huge critical and
commercial success won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, America’s to literary
award, in 1961. It was adapted for the stage and was also made into a
successful film. She has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
She did not release another novel until last
year, when 'Go Set A Watchman' was published.
She was a guardedly private person, respected
and protected by residents of her town, rarely giving interviews.
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