Harper Lee

4.5 of 5 Votes: 5

url

https://booksminority.net/harper-lee

gender

female

website

www.harperlee.com

genres

Historical Fiction

About this author

Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist, famous for her one and only novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was born in 1926, on April 28, in Alabama. Her father was a lawyer. Lee studied at Huntington College and then received law degree at the University of Alabama. She also spend one year, studying at Oxford University. Before utterly absorbed in writing, Harper Lee had worked at Easter Airlines in New York at 1950s. Lee lived in New York... more but always traveled to Alabama to take care of her father. Lee was a very good friend of Truman Capote. They were friends from early childhood, living as neighbors.

To Kill a Mockingbird is an amazing novel, rewarded by Pulitzer Prize. More than 15 million copies were sold, receiving critics and admiration. The book was screen in 1962. Since her roaring success the writer published some more short essays: "Love - In Other Words"(1961); "Christmas to Me" (1961); "When Children Discover America"(1965). less

Books by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

language

English

3.13 of 5 Votes: 4

To Kill a mockingbird is the famous novel, written by Harper Lee in 1060. This is her first and the only masterpiece, which was honored by Pulitzer Prize. The main character is a good lawyer, Atticus Finch, but the narrator – is a little girl, Jean Louise Finch (Scout), an Atticus’s daughter. Th...

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