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Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist widely known for her novel ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on her observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of two children. The novel was inspired by the racist attitudes she observed as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Though Lee published only this single book for half a century, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Lee has received numerous honorary degrees, and declined to speak on each occasion. Lee assisted close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ''In Cold Blood'' (1966).
In February 2015, Lee's lawyer released a statement confirming the publication of a second novel, ''Go Set a Watchman''. Written in the mid 1950s, the book was controversially〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/opinion/joe-nocera-the-watchman-fraud.html?_r=0〕 published in July 2015 as a sequel to ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', though it has been confirmed to be the first draft of the latter.
== Early life ==
Nelle Harper Lee was born and raised in Monroeville, Alabama, the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee. Her first name, Nelle, was her grandmother's name spelled backwards, and the name she uses. Harper Lee is her pen name.〔 Her mother was a homemaker; her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, practiced law and served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1926 to 1938. Before A.C. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper. Both clients, a father and son, were hanged.〔 Nelle Lee had three siblings: Alice Finch Lee (1911–2014), Louise Lee Conner (1916–2009) and Edwin Lee (1920–1951).
While enrolled at Monroe County High School, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating from high school in 1944,〔 she attended the then all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for a year, then transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she studied law for several years, and wrote for the university newspaper, but did not complete a degree.〔
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