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Harper Lee
Harper Lee American novelist Harper Lee, 2001.

Harper Lee

American writer
Also known as: Nelle Harper Lee
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Laura Fine, Ph.D., is department chair and associate professor of English at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She teaches American and world literature, and her areas of special interest are...
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Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, Monroeville) was an American writer nationally acclaimed for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), one of the most widely read works of fiction in American literature. A coming-of-age story about a child’s awakening to the racism and prejudice in her Southern small town, it in many ways reflected Lee’s experiences growing up in rural Alabama during the Great Depression. After its publication,...

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