Harper Lee biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Harper Lee

Author Name:

Harper Lee

Born As:

Nelle Harper Lee

Other Names:

Born:

28 Apr 1926

Died:





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Novelist                          
 Selected Works:

To Kill a Mockingbird - 1960
Love—In Other Words - April 15, 1961 Vogue
Christmas to Me - December 1961 McCall's
When Children Discover America - August 1965 McCall's

Romance and High Adventure - 1983, a paper presented in Eufaula, Alabama and collected in 1985 in the anthology Clearings in the Thicket

Open letter to Oprah Winfrey - July 2006, O: The Oprah Magazine.                          
Mother Frances Cunningham Finch Lee
Father Amasa Coleman Lee                           
Worked for a Law Degree from the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949 

Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States - 2007


Pulitzer Prize for fiction - 1961                          
Nelle Harper's schoolmate and neighbor, was the young Truman Capote.

Significant contributions of Lee include assisting her close friend, Truman Capote, in his research for the book In Cold Blood.