Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer and newspaper editor. Her childhood friend and neighbor was Truman Capote, who later became a famous writer. She studied at Huntingdon College and law at the University of Alabama, and in 1949 she moved to New York City, where she worked as an airline reservation clerk. In 1956 friends gave her a Christmas gift of a year's wages so that she could write full time. The result was To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), narrated by a girl named Scout Finch, whose father, the lawyer Atticus Finch, defends a Black man falsely accused of a crime in a small Alabama town in the 1930s. It became one of the best-selling and most widely taught American novels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, and was made into an Academy Award–winning film. Lee helped Capote research his book In Cold Blood. She lived quietly, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, and died in Monroeville in 2016.

Harper Lee is also an author in the library: author page and works.

Faith: Faith not well documented in detail; her funeral was held at First United Methodist Church in Monroeville. Source: Wikipedia