HARPER LEE

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Alabama (United States).

She studied law in Alabama and in the 50s she moved to New York to work for an airline company.

In 1960 she published the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, a classic of modern American literature, with which she won the Pulitzer Price.

The novel is about the irrational attitudes of adults towards race and class in the America of the 1930s.

After this novel she did not write again, she did not give interviews or appeared in public, returning to live in his her hometown.

In 2015 a manuscript was published that was written in the decade of the 50s: “Go Set a Watchman”, a prelude to “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

She died on February 19, 2016 at the age of 89 years gold old, she was single.

Professional information:

She was a writer, a novelist, a musician, a screenwriter and a lawyer.

She was awarded the National Medal of the Arts and the Pulitzer Price in 1961.

She also got the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature.

She was Member of the American Academy of Arts.

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