Nelle Harper Lee (1926–2016) grew up in Monroeville, Alabama, the daughter of Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer, state legislator and newspaper editor. She studied law at the University of Alabama before moving to New York to write. To Kill a Mockingbird, her first published novel, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961; she published no other novel until Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft set twenty years later, appeared in 2015. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by Jean Louise Finch, called Scout, looking back as an adult on three years of her childhood, from the summer she was nearly six, in Maycomb, a small, poor county seat in Alabama during the Depression of the 1930s. She lives with her older brother Jem, their widowed father Atticus, a lawyer and state legislator, and Calpurnia, the Black cook who helps raise them.
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