Harper Lee

Harper Lee

1. Born on April 28, 1926

   • At Monroeville, AL.
   • the youngest of four children.
   • Her parents were a lawyer, Amasa Coleman. Lee and an homemaker. Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.
     • Also her sister was a lawyer
   • Her real name was Nelle

2. Education: she switched college and left the studies after not much time .

   • In 1944, she enters Huntingdon in Alabama.
   • In 1945, Lee transfers to the University of Alabama, where she plans to study law.
     • but it never had the degree
     • it effected her writing style

3. Starting to work: In 1949, Lee quits school and moves to New York.

   • Lee supports herself with jobs at the reservation desks of airlines. She works for them for many years while writing takes a second place.

4. Start a writing career: In 1956, Lee returns to writing receiving a a gift: her friends pool money and buy her a year off from work. She supports herself as a writer from then on.

   • Her editor is Tay Hohoff of J.B. Lippincott Company.
   • her first novel's name is"Go Set A Watchman" but published second

5. Childhood:In 1932 Lee befriends Truman Streckfus Persons, a boy in her neighborhood.

   • In 1959 Lee travels with him to Holcomb, Kansas, to help research a story he is writing about the murder of a wealthy farming family, the Clutters, Cold Blood.
   • Also a writer, Truman eventually adopts the pen name Truman Capote.

6. Success: After almost 4 years she became famous all over the world.

   • On July 11, 1960 her bestseller To Kill A Mockingbird is published.
     • The book is an instant critical and commercial success.
     • At first it was a short story and then it became a novel

7. Awards

   • In 1961 she wins the Pulitzer Prize for to Kill A Mockingbird.

8. Family

   • She never married or had children.

9. DIed on February 19, 2016.

   • At Monroeville, AL.

10. She had a good character

11. +18/18