Harper Lee
American novelist (1926–2016)
Biography
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published in July 2015 as a sequel. A collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, was published on October 21, 2025.
Occupation
Harper Lee is recorded as a prose writer, a novelist, a poet lawyer, a musician, a actor, a writer and a screenwriter, born in Alabama (1926–2016).
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