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However, their study also suggests that Capote could have helped Lee with the writing of the opening chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird. Death. Lee died in her sleep on the morning of February 19, 2016, aged 89. Prior to her death, she lived in Monroeville, Alabama.
Feb 19, 2016 · Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89. The book remains a towering presence in American literature, telling the tale of a white lawyer defending a black...
Feb 19, 2016 · Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89.
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Jun 21, 2024 · Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, Monroeville) was an American writer nationally acclaimed for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Harper Lee’s father was Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer who by all accounts resembled the hero of her novel in his sound citizenship and warmheartedness.
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- Harper Lee wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960. Its powerful depiction of racism and prejudice in the American South...
- Harper Lee studied law at the University of Alabama, but she did not receive a degree. She was also an exchange student at the University of Oxford.
- Harper Lee’s best-known book is the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960. She wrote the novel Go Set a Watchman before To Kill...
- Harper Lee received a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
Feb 27, 2018 · Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89.
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Feb 20, 2016 · Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, the youngest of four children of A.C. and Frances Finch Lee and a descendant of Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Like Scout, Lee...
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Feb 19, 2016 · Harper Lee, the iconic American author of To Kill a Mockingbird, died Friday in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, her publisher, HarperCollins, confirmed.
