Nelle Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee () is the author of one of the most affecting and widely read books of American literature. In creating To Kill a Mockingbird (), Lee drew deeply and essentially from her coming-of-age years in the small town of Monroeville, Monroe County, Alabama. Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the dimensions of prejudice, hate, loyalty, and love through the eyes of a young girl as she awakens to the complexities of human nature and its capacity for both good and evil. In July , Lee published Go Set a Watchman, the original incarnation of To Kill a Mockingbird that was discovered in a safety-deposit box in Monroeville. It met with widespread public interest and media focus.
Monroeville Lee was born in Monroeville on April 28, , the youngest child of Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer, and Frances Finch, who apparently struggled with episodes of mental illness (perhaps what is now diagnosed as manic depression). Lee denied that the story of To Kill a Mockingbird is autobiographical, but her fiction was certainly influenced and shaped by her childhood experiences, shared with a brother and two sisters and fellow author-to-be Truman Capote, a freq
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Who Was Harper Lee?
In , Harper Lee finished the manuscript for her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. Soon after, she helped fellow writer and friend Truman Capote compose an article for The New Yorker which would evolve into his nonfiction masterpiece, In Cold Blood.
In July , Lee published her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, which was written before To Kill a Mockingbird and portrays the later lives of the characters from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Early Life
Lee was born on April 28, , in Monroeville, Alabama. The youngest of four children, she grew up as a tomboy in a small town.
Her father was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature and also owned part of the local newspaper. For most of Lee's life, her mother suffered from mental illness, rarely leaving the house. It is believed that she may have had bipolar disorder.
Education
In high school, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in , she attended the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Lee stood apart from the other students—she couldn't have cared less about fashion, makeup or dating. Instead, she foc
Harper Lee Biography
“Nelle” Harper Lee was born on April 28, , the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She grew up in Monroeville, a small town in southwest Alabama. Her father was a lawyer who also served in the state legislature from – As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader. After she attended public school in Monroeville she attended Huntingdon College, a private school for women in Montgomery for a year and then transferred to the University of Alabama. After graduation, Lee studied at Oxford University. She returned to the University of Alabama to study law but withdrew six months before graduation.
She moved to New York in and worked as a reservations clerk for Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways. While in New York, she wrote several essays and short stories, but none were published. Her agent encouraged her to develop one short story into a novel. In order to complete it, Lee quit working and was supported by friends who believed in her work. In , she submitted the manuscript to J. B. Lippincott Company. Although editors found the work too episodic, they saw promise in the book and encouraged Lee
Lee, (Nelle) Harper
(b. 28 April in Monroeville, Alabama), author of the critically acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird (), which explores issues of racism and prejudice and which is widely considered one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century.
Lee was the youngest of three children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances (Finch) Lee and grew up in Monroeville. She became interested in writing when she was seven years old. Lee went to public school in Monroeville and then spent the – school year at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, before attending the University of Alabama from to She spent one of these years as an exchange student at Oxford University in England. Although she pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama, she left in , six months before graduating, and moved to New York City to become a writer. Lee was never married and had no children.
In New York Lee worked as an airline reservation clerk and wrote in her free time. A literary agent who read her work suggested that she expand one of her stories into a novel. With this encouragement, as well as financial help from friends, she quit her job and began writing full time, d
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