Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee (Monroeville, 28 april 1926) is an American writer. She is best known for her book To Kill a Mockingbird from 1960 that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. ==Life[ Edit] == Lee is the youngest of four children. Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee was a lawyer and former Chief Editor/owner of a newspaper in Monroeville. He was also senator from1926 to 1938. Lee's mother is Frances Cunningham Finch, whose names she in her book To Kill a Mockingbird has used for different characters. In her childhood years she was the girl next door by writer Truman Capote, with whom she had a lifelong friendship and also a source of inspiration was for one of the characters in Mockingbird, the boy Dill.

After obtaining her diploma in secondary education she attended Huntingdon College. After a year, she obtained a law degree from the University of Alabama. In addition, she has studied a year in Oxford, before they moved to New York City in 1950. ==Career[ Edit] == Lee wrote a series of short stories about life in the South of the United States. This she offered to a Publisher for publication in 1957. Her editor Tay Hohoff however, these stories encouraged her to turn it into a novel. That was To Kill a Mockingbird, to this day, a bestseller in the United States.

They pulled back after this book largely from public life and published almost nothing more. She accompanied Truman Capote in his research for In Cold Blood. In 1983 she wrote a book review about a book that deals with the history of Alabama. In 2006 published Lee in the summer issue of O, the magazine of the American television presenter Oprah Winfrey, a letter[1]  about how they discovered books in her youth. A quote:


 * Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.