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Harper Lee
American writer
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Arts & Culture
- Born:
- April 28, 1926 Alabama
- Died:
- February 19, 2016 (aged 89) Alabama
- Awards And Honors:
- Pulitzer Prize Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007)
- Notable Works:
- “Go Set a Watchman” “To Kill a Mockingbird”
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Harper Lee, in full Nelle Harper Lee, (born April 28, 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, Monroeville), 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. The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird is based in part on his unsuccessful youthful defense of two African American men convicted of murder. Lee studied law at the University of Alabama (spending a summer as an exchange student at the University of Oxford), but ...(100 of 545 words)