Harper Lee: References & Edit History
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: Medill Reports Chicago - Harper Lee (1926-2016): between classic and controversy. | Oct 22, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CBS News - Harper Lee, true crime writer. | Jul 10, 2026 | ||
| Added information about her views of the civil rights movement and fame and her friendship with Truman Capote. | Apr 24, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 24, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN US - Harper Lee Fast Facts. | Apr 24, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 15, 2026 | ||
| Added the collection The Land of Sweet Forever. | Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Harper Lee's contested estate. | Apr 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Colorado State University - Women's History Month: Harper Lee. | Feb 15, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - What Harper Lee's lost short stories reveal about the To Kill A Mockingbird author. | Dec 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - The Measure of Harper Lee: A Life Shaped By A Towering Text. | Jun 21, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Monroe County Museum - Harper Lee Timeline. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Medill Reports Chicago - Harper Lee (1926-2016): between classic and controversy. | Dec 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Nelle Harper Lee. | Sep 10, 2022 | ||
| Removed incorrect reference to a 1997 film; updated number of copies of To Kill a Mockingbird sold. | Oct 05, 2021 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black.” | Jul 24, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chicago Public Library - Biography of Harper Lee. | Feb 27, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The MY HERO Project - Biography of Harper Lee. | Feb 27, 2019 | ||
| Added the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird. | Dec 11, 2018 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Nov 27, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - Harper Lee, author of �To Kill a Mockingbird,� dies at 89. | Jan 13, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Harper Lee obituary. | Jan 13, 2017 | ||
| She died on February 19, 2016. | Feb 19, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 15, 2015 | ||
| Noted the release of Go Set a Watchman. | Jul 14, 2015 | ||
| Added information about Harper Lee's friendship with Truman Capote, and other changes made. | May 18, 2015 | ||
| Announcement of Lee's second novel added. | Feb 03, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Amercian Society of Authors and Writers - Biography of Harper Lee. | May 30, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Harper Lee. | May 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Alabama - Biography of Harper Lee. | May 06, 2013 | ||
| Lee's father's name and his legal connection to the case presented in To Kill a Mockingbird added and her unsubstantiated connection to Robert E. Lee removed. |
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Jan 21, 2010 | |
| Media added. | Feb 05, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 30, 2007 | ||
| New article added. | Dec 21, 2001 |
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